India, Feb. 18 -- Senior IAS officer Bishnupada Sethi, under the scanner of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) over his alleged link with a senior officer of a central PSU who was arrested in a Rs.10-lakh bribery case in December last year, on Tuesday submitted his resignation from the service citing denial of promotion.

In a handwritten letter to chief secretary Manoj Ahuja, the 1995-batch officer said his batchmate Hemant Sharma was recently promoted to the rank of additional chief secretary in the state government, while he was overlooked.

"I do not think I will have any future in the government," he wrote in the two-page resignation letter, referring to the CBI probe against him.

HT has seen a copy of the resignation letter....