The police custody of suspended IAS officer Ashok Singhvi and four others was on Monday extended till September 24 by a court in Udaipur in a case of alleged bribery involving Rs 2.55 crore.
Three other accused in the case were sent to judicial custody by the anti-corruption bureau(ACB) court.
“All the eight persons were arrested by the anti-corruption bureau in connection with a bribery case involving Rs 2.55 crore last week and were under police custody since September 17,” IG ACB Dinesh MN said. The accused were produced in the ACB court in Udaipur on Monday where the magistrate extended the police custody for former Principal Secretary Mines department Ashok Singhvi, two other suspended officers of the mines department Pankaj Gehlot and Pushkar Raj Ameta, mines department’s middleman Sanjay Sethi and one Rashid Khan.