Ranchi, May 20: The Anti-Corruption Bureau arrested senior Jharkhand IAS officer Vinay Kumar Choubey in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise scam in the state.
He has been sent to judicial custody to Birsa Munda Central Jail at Hotwar here after a special court remanded him to judicial custody till June 3.
He was arrested after hours of interrogation by the ACB, which has been inquiring into the allegation of irregularities in excise policy during his tenure as secretary of the excise department.
The excise department's Joint Commissioner Gajendra Singh was also arrested and sent to jail in the same case.
Choubey, a 1999-batch IAS officer, had held several key posts, including Secretary to the CM. He is currently posted as Principal Secretary, Department of Panchayati Raj.
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