India, Dec. 24 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested a revenue officer in the Surendranagar collectorate for alleged money laundering linked to corruption in land-use permissions, and seized Rs.67.50 lakh in cash from his residence, according to a remand application before a special PMLA court in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.

The court remanded him in ED custody till January 1.

The accused, Chandrasinh Mori, was posted as a deputy mamlatdar (equivalent to a tehsildar) and executive magistrate in the Surendranagar collectorate and entrusted with the verification and processing of applications under the Saurashtra Ghar Khed Tenancy Settlement and Agricultural Lands Ordinance, 1949.

ED told the court that his official position enable...