India, Jan. 10 -- The Haryana government has declined to grant sanction to prosecute 2001-batch IAS officer Vijay Dahiya, who was arrested by the anti-corruption bureau (ACB) in 2023 in connection with an alleged corruption case.

The refusal to accord prosecution sanction effectively prevents the investigating agency from filing a chargesheet or challan against the IAS officer in a court of law for initiating trial proceedings against him.

The ACB had registered a corruption case on April 20, 2023, naming Dahiya, then administrative secretary of the Youth Empowerment and Entrepreneurship Department, along with Deepak Sharma, the chief skills officer (a contractual appointee) in the Haryana Skill Development Mission, and a private indivi...