chandigarh the punjab vigilance bureau vb arrested a record 172 accused persons in 129 bribery cases of which 83 were nabbed in 65 trap cases and 89 persons on the basis of online complaints in 2022 informed vb chief directorcumadgp varinder kumarhe revealed that during 2022 30 personnel of punjab police 13 employees of the revenue department five of power department and four of local bodies were nabbed redhanded while taking bribes in different trap casesgiving more details about the performance of the bureau kumar informed that vb had registered 135 criminal cases against 371 accused which includes 35 gazetted officers gos 163 nongazetted officials ngos and 173 private persons apart from this 103 vigilance enquiries have also been registered against 139 suspects to probe corruption complaints which include 35 gos 58 ngos and 46 private persons in the last year besides two cases of disproportionate assets were also registered against one go and ngotwo ngos have been dismissed from their services by their respective administrative departments due to convictions in various courts he added vb chief said the bureau had been able to conclude 39 vigilance enquiries during the previous yearadding kumar said various special courts have sentenced two gos 18 ngos and 10 private persons accused in 19 different vigilance cases registered under the prevention of corruption act and awarded imprisonment up to five years the special courts have also imposed fines varying from rs 5000 to rs 3300000 in these cases which amount to a total sum of rs 3790000 he informedprominent persons arrestedgiving details of prominent cases vb chief informed that four former ministers sadhu singh dharmsot sangat singh gilzian bharat bhushan ashu and sundar sham arora amritsar improvement trust former chairman dinesh bassi ias officer sanjay popli ifs offcers parveen kumar vishal chohan and amit chohan and others had been booked and arrested in corruption casesanticorruption action line receives 372 lakh complaintssharing details of cm anticorruption action line facility for the general public he informed that a total of 372175 complaints were received last year out of which 6407 complaints were received with audiovideo recordings and 294 complaints pertaining to the vigilance bureau