Chandigarh, June 27 -- The Haryana government on Friday suspended IAS officer Pankaj Agrawal, days after he was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with an alleged bank fraud case.

Agrawal was taken into CBI custody on June 22 and was produced before a court on June 23. He is currently in judicial custody.

The case pertains to an alleged bank fraud involving IDFC FIRST Bank and AU Small Finance Bank, which is being investigated by the CBI.

This comes after on June 23, the CBI arrested Pankaj Aggarwal, IAS, on Monday, who was the then Principal Secretary in Department of School Education and Agriculture, in connection with the alleged misappropriation of government funds from the account of Haryana School...