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Cop to philanthropist
50 years ago, Lajpat Munger was caught taking a bribe of Rs 500, he is now donating property worth Rs 20 crore.
Ninety-year-old Lajpat Rai Munger has come a long way. He left Punjab police in 1954, and went to the USA in 1966, where he worked as a labourer on farms for five years.
Today he owns 8,000 acres of land in California.
The philanthropist in Munger has taken birth after undergoing reformation. For this, he gives credit to Swami Sarvanand Giri, who helped him remove his pangs of guilt.
He has paid a befitting tribute to his reformer by donating his property spread in 11 acres of land for an engineering college in Hoshiarpur. Called Swami Sarvanand Giri Regional Centre, Panjab University, Bajwara, it is a dream come true for him.
Punjab governor Gen (retd) SF Rodrigues inaugurated the centre on Monday and lauded Munger's generosity. PU V-C Prof K N Pathak, too, could not stop thanking him.
But the philanthropist was modesty personified. "This is not something very big I have given to my motherland," he said.
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