India, Jan. 2 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested former Surendranagar district collector Rajendrakumar Patel in connection with a bribery-linked money laundering case. Patel, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 2015 batch, is the second civil servant to be arrested by ED in this case.

Patel, who had been removed as the district collector on December 24 after the arrest of a a deputy mamlatdar, was arrested in Gandhinagar late on Thursday evening and taken to Surendranagar for investigation, said an official aware of the matter.

The Enforcement Directorate and the state's Anti Corruption Bureau recently registered cases against Patel, his personal assistant Jayrajsinh Jhala, clerk Mayursinh Gohil and deput...