Lucknow, March 21 -- : Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday cracked the whip on senior IAS officer and Invest UP CEO Abhishek Prakash by suspending him for allegedly seeking bribe through a middleman for approving a solar power plant project and ordered action against him.

The Lucknow police arrested one Nikant Jain, who was supposedly demanding 5% of total cost of the project as commission for approving the project, allegedly at the behest of Prakash.

The action comes within hours of the chief minister's announcement at a public meeting in Gonda that "no one will be spared if found guilty in executing a project."

An FIR was lodged at the Gomti Nagar police station against Nikant Jain under several sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya...