India, June 23 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested senior Haryana IAS officer Pankaj Agarwal on Monday evening for his alleged role in the misappropriation of government funds maintained with IDFC First Bank's Sector 32, Chandigarh, branch. Agarwal was produced before a Panchkula court on Tuesday morning.

Agarwal was the principal secretary of the department of school education and the department of agriculture when accounts maintained by the Haryana School Shiksha Pariyojna Parishad and the Haryana State Agriculture Marketing Board were opened at the bank branch in Chandigarh in violation of the state finance department's guidelines.

The CBI, which took over the probe on the Haryana government's request in May, found ...