Bathinda, Nov. 3 -- Eight months after the vigilance bureau (VB) booked an executive engineer (XEN) posted in Bathinda municipal corporation (MC) in a disproportionate assets (DA) case, the accused, Gurpreet Singh Butter, continues to elude arrest.

As per official information, Butter's anticipatory bail was dismissed by the Supreme Court on May 16 this year but despite that the VB has not been able to carry out his custodial questioning.

Posted as municipal town planner (MTP) in Bathinda, Butter, who has been suspended from the local urban development department, is considered close to politicians across the party lines.

On February 27, he was booked by the VB's Bathinda range under the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act. He was charged...