Jaipur, April 11 -- A special ACB court on Friday remanded former IAS officer Subodh Agarwal to three days in custody in connection with the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) irregularities case, even as the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) had sought a five-day remand for further questioning. Speaking before his court appearance, Agarwal denied surrendering, stating, "I have not surrendered. I have come on my own to cooperate. I have faith in justice - Satyamev Jayate." During the hearing, ACB officials told the court that the case involves large-scale irregularities and financial transactions, and sought custodial interrogation to probe the alleged fraud in detail. However, the defence argued that the accused had not been informed of the grounds of arrest, questioning the necessity of the arrest of the accused in a matter that had been pending for a long time. The counsel also cited Supreme Court guidelines, stating that the accused must be informed of the reasons for arrest and provided the remand application prior to being produced in court. Agarwal was taken into custody by ACB officials from New Delhi on Thursday and brought to Jaipur, where he was formally arrested. He faces allegations of irregularities in the tender process and misuse of official position in the execution of projects under the central government's Jal Jeevan Mission. He was on the run for nearly 50 days in connection to the Rs.960 crore irregularities in the Jal Jeevan Mission scheme in the state. According to officials, Agrawal deliberately did not take any action despite being aware of the fact that some fake certificates were attached to bypass the tender process. "Had he taken any action timely, those tenders could have been issued to some better eligible firms. But he deliberately sat on the entire scam and provided undue benefits to some specific firms. These tenders cost around Rs.960 crores," said the director general of the ACB, Govind Gupta. He added that Agrawal had allegedly attached an additional condition to a few more tenders to increase their prices. "Those tenders cost around Rs.50 crores. Agrawal attached an additional term of a site inspection during the application for those tenders. It revealed the identity of the applicants and increased the price unfairly. This is how he provided many undue favours to some firms misusing his post," he said. On February 17, ACB arrested nine people in connection with the case while conducting a search operation at four states including Rajasthan, Delhi, Jharkhand, and Bihar....