India, June 16 -- A team of the Haryana State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested a senior government health official in Nuh on Monday for allegedly accepting a Rs.50,000 bribe to allow the reopening of a sealed hospital. The suspect was posted at a government medical hospital in Nuh's Mandikhera.

A senior ACB official said the official had demanded Rs.5 lakh from the hospital owner to permit resumption of operations at the unlicensed facility.

"The bribe was also to clear the hospital owner and his wife's name from a criminal case that was filed by the state health department with the police," the officer quoted above said, asking not to be named.

The case in question stems from a June 4 raid by a chief minister's flyi...