Two Haryana IAS officers arrested in corruption cases only in two days. Chief of Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) Haryana Shatrujit Kapoor while talking to media persons said that nearly one and half dozen senior bureaucrats of IAS and IPS rank allegedly involved in corruption cases are on ACB radar on the direction by Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khatter.
According to information by the ACB officials, a middleman and a trader in Panchkula was arrested in the case while accepting the bribe of Rs 3 lakh against total amount settled Rs 5 lakh , allegedly on behalf of 2009 batch IAS officer who also worked as Deputy Commissioner Bhiwani earlier Arya. A case in this regard was lodged on Wednesday against both arrested accused produced in the court on Thursday. The information reveals that the arrest of the IAS officer was not merely based on the statement of the tout. The ACB was following the case after having received a complaint in this case earlier, besides also having other evidence, including some recordings.
A day after the arrest of another senior IAS officer Vijay Singh Dahiya in a corruption case, the Anti-Corruption Bureau Haryana on Wednesday nabbed a second IAS of the state, Jaibir Singh Arya in bribery case. Arya, the Managing Director of Haryana State Warehousing Corporation has been arrested under charges of seeking bribe for sanctioning a transfer of an officer of the corporation as Divisional Manager in Kurukshetra. The money was scheduled to be delivered at a Panchkula shop. Jaibir Arya is among those 38 state civil services officers who were elevated to the IAS cadre in 2019.
As soon as an alleged middleman of Arya accepted the bribe money the ACB sleuths arrested him. After questioning the tout, the team landed at the office of Arya at Panchkula at evening and placed him under arrest as well.
According to ACB information, the arrest of the IAS officer Arya was not merely based on the statement of the tout, the ACB was following the case after having received a complaint in this case earlier. The bureau already has other evidence, including some recordings.
Meanwhile, another official of the Haryana State Warehousing Corporation has working as middleman has also been booked in this same case who is yet absconding. On Tuesday, Anti-Corruption Bureau of Haryana had arrested a senior IAS officer Vijay Singh Dahiya, six months after he was booked in a corruption case. A 2001-batch officer, Dahiya was arrested after he was questioned at ACB headquarters in Panchkula.
