India, May 16 -- The Tarn Taran police arrested Gurdaspur sub divisional magistrate Anupreet Kaur Randhawa, a 2012-batch Punjab Civil Services (PCS) officer, from her official residence on Saturday in connection with a 2019 embezzlement case involving Rs.1.63 crore meant for land acquisition for National Highway 54 (NH-54), which connects Jammu to Rajasthan via Amritsar and Bathinda.

Tarn Taran senior superintendent of police Surendra Lamba confirmed the development and said that a police team from Patti raided her Gurdaspur residence following developments in a related petition currently pending before the Punjab and Haryana high court.

Fraudulent payoffs

The scam dates back to 2019 when Anupreet was serving as the SDM of Patti and ac...