IAS Officer Of Haryana Arrested

In Corruption Case…

On Monday, an IAS officer was arrested due to involvement in a corruption case from Gurugram, police said.

The accused, named Dharmender Singh, was posted as Resident Commissioner in Haryana Bhavan in Delhi, they added.

He was later caught in a joint operation conducted by SIT and Faridabad Police.

It is alleged that the accused had illegally increased the amount of a tender from Rs. 55 crores to Rs. 87 crores for approval.

He had taken a bribe of Rs. 1.11 crore from a contractor as well when he was the commissioner of the municipal corporation, Sonipat, police said.

A case was registered against him at Kotwali police station in Faridabad in 2022 on the complaint by one Lalit Mittal, a resident of Ranjit Nagar, New Delhi, and two others who together took a bribe of Rs. 1.11 crore from him on the pretext of getting him a tender in the Sonipat municipal corporation, they said.

Police said the three accused told Mittal that the bribe amount had been distributed among higher officers.

Later, Mittal did not get any government contract and then he approached the police.

During an investigation, it was revealed that the officer had created disturbances in the construction of a building in Sonipat when he was the municipal corporation commissioner.