On-run MVI’s bail hearing tomorrow

LUDHIANA: The economic offence wing of Vigilance Bureau (VB) is yet to nab absconding motor vehicle inspector (MVI) Rakesh Kumar Gupta, who has been on the run since he was booked in an embezzlement case after his house was raided by the VB on July 18.An anticipatory bail filed by Gupta in the case of recovery of opium from his house is scheduled for hearing on Friday in the district courts.The bureau had recovered Rs 35 lakh, property documents, Kisan Patra worth Rs 5 lakh and 1.25 kg opium from Gupta’s house. Deputy superintendent of police Mahinder Singh said they have raided several places in search of Gupta. Another anticipatory bail filed by Gupta in the district courts was rejected on September 18.The vigilance bureau had earlier found out that Gupta had been issuing fitness certificates to vehicles without proper verification. One of the incidents which brought Gupta’s faulty practice to light was accident of a school bus, kept at Khamano police station in Fatehgarh Sahib district, to which he had issued a fitness certificate without verification.