Ranchi, May 20 -- Jharkhand Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday arrested IAS officer Vinay Chaubey in connection with the liquor scam case, officials said.

A Joint Commissioner of the Excise Department has also been arrested in connection with the case, they added.

Chaubey, who was the then Secretary of the Jharkhand Excise Department, had earlier been named in the case by the Chhattisgarh ACB in September 2024.

Based on an FIR registered by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Chhattisgarh ACB, the Jharkhand ACB had initiated a preliminary enquiry (PE) to probe the matter.

Currently, Chaubey is serving as the Principal Secretary of the Panchayati Raj Department and had previously held the post of Secretary to Chief Minister He...