Chandigarh: Health minister Vijay Singla has been arrested and brought to police station Phase VIII Mohali.
A case under the Corruption Act has been registered against health minister Vijay Singla by the Mohali police.
Meanwhile the media has been barred from entering the police station for the time being by the police.
Reiterating his government’s firm commitment to make Punjab a corruption free state, the Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann today dismissed Health Minister Dr Vijay Singla for seeking 1% commission in department headed by him.
“My government is having zero tolerance towards corruption and no one, howsoever affluent he may be, will be allowed to continue such malpractices ”, said the Chief Minister.
The Chief Minister categorically said that he had dismissed Dr Singla from his Cabinet and asked the Police to register case against him. He said that since the case was only in his knowledge so he could have easily buried it or ignored it. However, Bhagwant Mann said that after taking oath at sacred soil of Khatkar Kalan he had vowed to make Punjab corruption free and this is a historic step towards this cause.