New Delhi, April 28 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested an absconding accused, Manoj Kumar Sinha, who never joined the investigation and had been absconding since the registration of an FIR in 2012 in a Rs 60.86 lakh bank fraud case.

According to the CBI, it registered the instant case on the complaint of BSNL on April 16, 2012, against unknown officials of SBI Main Branch, Shillong, unknown officials of BSNL, Shillong and other unknown persons, alleging therein that an amount of Rs. 60.86 lakh was illegally withdrawn from the BSNL account maintained with SBI, M. G. Road Branch, Shillong.

After completion of the investigation, CBI filed a chargesheet on December 23, 2013, against the accused Sanjeev Kumar Rai befor...