Senior government official Sanjay Pratap Singh was suspended from his post on Wednesday after the Central Bureau of Investigation arrested him and his assistant the before for taking a bribe of Rs 2.2 lakh. Singh is the Principal Secretary in the Delhi government’s Department of Welfare for Schedule Caste/Schedule Tribe and Minorities. The Indian Express reported that Singh allegedly demanded a bribe from the owner of a firm that provided workers to his department to clear their monthly bills .

"The government has suspended Singh, an IAS officer of 1984 batch of AGMUT cadre, and surrendered his service to the Ministry of Home Affairs, saying that we don't require his services any more," a Delhi government official told PTI.

The owner of the firm, who is also an Aam Aadmi Party volunteer in East Delhi, filed a complaint with the CBI. The investigation agency then laid a trap for the senior bureaucrat and asked the firm owner to negotiate the bribe with Singh. Singh reportedly asked for Rs 2.2 lakh in the first installment and instructed the firm owner to give the money to his assistant, Ramesh Kumar. Both Kumar and Singh were charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act. Anti-corruption advisor to the state government Gopal Mohan said that the complainant had spoken to him regarding Singh recently, and said that he had guided the firm owner to take action.