Recently, CM Bhagwant Mann has announced an Anti-Corruption
helpline number where people can register all their grievances related to the
corruption they have faced.
A few months back, Gaurav Thakur, President of an NGO named
‘Umeed’ based in Amritsar registered a complaint on the same helpline number
and also to the commissioner of Amritsar informing them about the corruption
going on in the Municipal Corporation Office. He submitted all the evidence
like documents, audio recordings, and important details about the officers who
all were involved in the corruption to them but no action has been taken by
anyone against the officers till now. He also informed the officials that this
has been going on since the time of the Punjab Elections.
He has also registered the same complaint in the Vigilance
Bureau and local body of Punjab that the JE, Manjit Singh Saini is uneducated
and all his work is done by his right-hand Vikram.
Later, the president who reported against the officials
started getting threat calls and was pressurized by the officers to take back
his case. After all this, the President of Umeed NGO took the help of
social media platforms to raise his voice against the corruption going on but
soon after he did the same a defamation case was lodged against him by the
officers.
The NGO has now come in contact with TrueScoop to seek help
regarding the same case. Through this news, we would just like to bring it to
the notice of concerned authorities about what is going on in the state and
would request them to take strict action against it.
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