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PPSC scam accused still in jail

PATIALA, JAN. 22 . Job-on-sale scam accused Ravinder Pal Singh Sidhu, former Chairman of Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC), was not released from jail today as a local court ordered refurnishing of two sureties of Rs five lakh as directed by the Supreme Court which had granted him bail in a corruption case last week.

Finding the sureties submitted by two of his Aunts - Narinder Pal Kaur and Amarinder Pal Kaur - as not amounting to Rs five lakh each, the District and Sessions judge, A. N. Jindal, directed them to submit fresh sureties of the value directed by the Apex Court.

Sidhu, who appeared in the court, was taken back to the Central Jail here where he had been lodged soon after his arrest on March 25, 2002 by the State Vigilance Bureau on charges of accepting a bribe of Rs five lakh from an aspirant for selection in Punjab Civil Service (PCS).

The documents submitted by his aunts related to land measuring 35 and 36 kanals in Mansa district and these were valued less than Rs five lakh each as per revenue record of the year 1997.

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