Today, the Punjab and Haryana high court rejects the anticipatory bail plea of Haryana IAS officer Vijay Singh Dahiya in a corruption case.

The single-headed bench of Justice Gurvinder Singh Gill rejects he plea. Dahiya, the former commissioner of the Haryana Skill Development Department in Panchkula, was booked on April 20 after the arrest of a woman, who allegedly acted as a facilitator to get bills cleared in lieu of money collected on his behalf.

A case under Sections 7 and 7A of the Prevention of Corruption Act and Sections 384 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code was registered on April 20 on the complaint of Rinku Manchanda of Fatehabad, who had claimed that he was running an educational institution and imparting computer training besides running classes for AC technicians and beauty parlour.

“In fact, the petitioner has been implicated merely for the reason that he is known to co-accused Poonam Chopra and by manipulating this acquaintance, the prosecution attempted to concoct a story that the petitioner is also an accused in the case,” the plea argued.

A Panchkula court had dismissed his anticipatory bail plea on May 3, observing that prima facie there appeared “active complicity” of Dahiya in the alleged offences.