PCS officer, convicted of graft, dismissed

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today dismissed a PCS officer who was convicted and sentenced to rigorous imprisonment by a court last month in a 2010 bribery case.
Punjab Civil Service (PCS) officer T K Goyal has been dismissed from service under Article 311 of the Civil Service Rules, a spokesman of the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) said here.
The officer was sentenced to three years of rigorous imprisonment in the bribery case which was reported when he was the joint secretary in the Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes (SC/BC) Welfare Department, he said.
Goyal was arrested on September 8, 2010, from his office at the Chandigarh Civil Secretariat on a complaint by George Shambu of Begowal village in Kapurthala district, the spokesman said.

He was caught accepting Rs 50,000 as bribe for issuing a SC certificate.
The 1995 batch officer was posted as project director, Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), and holding the additional charge as joint secretary, Higher Education Department, he said.
The chief minister, who has taken a stern stand against corruption, and has promised a clean and transparent government, has made it clear that there was no place in his administration for those found indulging in corrupt practices, the spokesman said.
Amarinder Singh has directed strict adherence to the law in all matters. Any violation of this directive would be dealt with an iron hand, he said.