Times of India: Chandigarh: Tuesday, March 13, 2018.
Punjab chief
information commissioner S S Channy on Monday handed over an ‘RTI activist’
Gurdev Singh of Bathinda to the Chandigarh Police for allegedly blackmailing a
school principal and taking Rs 10,000 bribe from him.
Gurdev had
taken the bribe to withdraw the case he had filed against the principal before
the Right to Information commission.
Channy said
during the court proceeding of the state information commissioner Preety
Chawla, the so-called ‘RTI activist’ Gurdev Singh, a resident of Kothe Sapoora
Singh Wala village in Bathinda district, told the court that he had received
the information and the case may be closed.
During the
hearing, when Pritam Singh, principal incharge of the government girls’ senior
secondary school at Mandi Kalan in Bathinda, was asked, said he had paid bribe
to Gurdev in the commission premises. The principal further stated that he had
already taken photo copy of the currency notes, which he had paid to Gurdev.
When questioned by the RTI commissioner, Gurdev confessed he had taken money
from the principal.
Thereafter,
Chawla brought the whole episode to the notice of the chief information
commissioner. Taking notice, Channy wrote a letter to the Chandigarh SSP.
Later, on SSP’s directions, both Gurdev and Pritam were handed over to Sector
17 police station in-charge Maninder Singh for further action.
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