India, May 19 -- Gujarat minister Bachubhai Khabad's second son and four others were arrested on Monday for their alleged involvement in irregularities of Rs.71 crore in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) scheme implementation in Dahod, a police officer said.

Kiran Khabad was held two days after his elder brother, Balvant Khabad, was arrested on May 17 in the same case. The two were on the run for around three weeks.

"We arrested Kiran Khabad, son of minister Khabad, along with four others on Sunday night," said Dahod police superintendent Rajdeepsinh Zala. He identified the four as Dahod's deputy district development officer, Rasik Rathwa, taluka panchayat officers Dilip Chauhan, Bhavesh Rathod, and...