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Vijay Singla was produced in a Mohali court after his three-day police remand ended.
Sacked Health Minister Dr. Vijay Singla has been sent to jail by Mohali Court. He has been sent to judicial custody for 14 days. He was produced in the court after his three-day police remand was over.
Going to the trial, Singla said that I have worked with complete honesty. I have been implicated by conspiracy by outside forces. Soon everything will be revealed. Singla said that I have full faith in the party, government, police and judiciary. However, Singla remained silent on CM Bhagwant Mann’s claim of confessing his crime.
In the case of Singla’s commission, now the tenders of Mohalla Clinics have also come under scrutiny. Investigation is being done about whether bribe was taken from the contractors who have taken these tenders. For this, the records of 3 months’ call details of the minister and OSD nephew are being searched after extracting the records.
When the complaint was received, the CM dismissed
Dr. Singla was dismissed by CM Bhagwant Mann. Mann had claimed that Singla was asking for 1% commission for every work of the health department. Which he has a recording of. When he asked the minister, he accepted the mistake. After which Mann asked to register a case against the minister. On the statement of the superintendent engineer of the department itself, a form of Anti-Corruption Act has been registered on the minister and his OSD nephew.
Polls open only from Mohalla Clinic
If sources are to be believed, the corruption of the minister was exposed only from Aam Aadmi Party’s dream project Mohalla Clinic. AAP government is going to start 75 Mohalla Clinics in the state from 15th August. Its tendering process is going on. When the party and the government started reviewing this, the story of the corruption of the minister and the OSD nephew came to the fore. After which the commissioning also started coming to the fore in the interrogation of the officers.