Rohtak, Feb. 1 -- The Faridabad Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested four persons in connection with Rs.50-crore embezzlement case involving the block development and panchayat office (BDPO), Hasanpur, in Palwal district.

A spokesman of the ACB said that during remand, Rakesh Kumar, a clerk in the BDPO Hasanpur office confessed to buying 19 acres of land worth Rs.21.73 crore from embezzlement of funds in the name of his parents and sister-in-law at Hasanpur village in Palwal and paid Rs.12 crore in cash to the land owner.

The spokesman further said that the other accused Shamsher Singh, who retired as a section officer from the development and panchayat department in November last year, confessed to buying three acres of land in th...