The Enforcement Directorate has arrested a senior IAS officer and a former RJD MLA for their involvement in an alleged tender scam in the Bihar power ministry.
Sanjeev Hans, (IAS) officer from the Bihar cadre, was the principal secretary of the state energy department but was transferred to the general administration department in August after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) carried out the first round of searches in this case. Officials said Gulab Yadav, a former MLA from Jhanjarpur, was Hans’s close associate.
The ED had carried out multiple raids at premises linked to Hans and Yadav and the last round of searches was conducted on Thursday. Hans was arrested from Patna on Friday while Yadav was taken into custody from Delhi under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.