India, June 23 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested senior Haryana IAS officer Pankaj Aggarwal in connection with the IDFC First Bank public funds fraud case, marking a significant development in a probe involving the alleged misappropriation of government money.

Aggarwal, a former principal secretary in the School Education and Agriculture departments of Haryana, was arrested on June 22 and is scheduled to be produced before a court on Tuesday.

According to the CBI, the arrest is linked to alleged irregularities involving accounts of the Haryana School Shiksha Pariyojna Parishad and the Haryana State Agriculture Marketing Board maintained at IDFC First Bank's Sector 32 branch in Chandigarh.

The agency has alleged ...