Former Punjab minister arrested for offering 'bribe'

Former Punjab minister Sunder Sham Arora, who joined the BJP in June, was arrested by the State Vigilance Bureau for allegedly offering a bribe to its AIG-rank officer for “favourably settling” an inquiry against him. Arora, who was arrested when he tried to “hand over” the cash to AIG Manmohan Kumar, was sent to three-day police custody by a Mohali court. Arora is the third former minister to be arrested by the AAP government on corruption charges. The arrest comes ahead of the Assembly elections in Himachal where AAP is pitted against the BJP and the Congress. In the past few weeks, Arora was twice summoned by the VB in connection with a “disproportionate” assets case and “irregularities” in the allotment of industrial plots during his tenure as minister.