DSP (vigilance) Manish Kumar says the patwari demanded ₹25,000 from Jaswinder Kaur of Tanuli village of Hoshiarpur. He had already taken ₹15,000 reportedly from her.
A resident of Madhopur village had filed a complaint on the chief minister’s anti-corruption action line, stating that the accused had sought an illegal gratification of ₹1 lakh for mutation of his wife’s ancestral land.
An official spokesperson said that an FIR has been filed under sections 420, 465, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at the police station of VB’s economic offences wing, Ludhiana
JN.1's detection in India spooked the stock markets on Wednesday, but neither abroad nor in India have there been signs that it could be a cause for concern.