Chandigarh/Bathinda, Sept. 12 -- The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) has registered a criminal case against a road construction contractor and concerned officials of the Mansa municipal council for allegedly causing a Rs.2.62-lakh loss to the state exchequer by using substandard construction material and inflated payments.

According to a VB spokesperson, the case was registered on the basis of a complaint by a resident of Ward 5, New Kachehri Road, Mansa. The civic body awarded a contract for repairing a road from Gagowal-wali Gali on New Kachehri Road to the municipal boundary at Mansa Khurd.

The VB alleged that instead of executing the work along the entire stretch covered under the tender, the contractor constructed only a portion of th...