The police custody of suspended IAS officer Ashok Singhvi and four others was today extended till September 24 by a court in Udaipur in a case of alleged bribery involving Rs 2.55 crore.
Three other accused in the case were sent to judicial custody by the anti-corruption bureau(ACB) court.
"All the eight persons were arrested by the anti-corruption bureau in connection with a bribery case involving Rs 2.55 crore last week and were under police custody since September 17," IG ACB Dinesh MN said.
The accused were produced in the ACB court in Udaipur today where the magistrate extended the police custody for former Principal Secretary - Mines department Ashok Singhvi, two other suspended officers of the mines department Pankaj Gehlot and Pushkar Raj Ameta, mines department's middleman Sanjay Sethi and one Rashid Khan.
Mines owner Sher Khan, who had sent the bribery money for the officers to get his closed mines reopened, his chartered accountant Shyam Singh Singhvi and another accused Dhirendra alias Chitu were remanded to judicial custody today.
A team of the ACB had arrested five persons from Udaipur and two from Bhilwara on September 16 with heavy cash as bribery amount. The team later arrested senior IAS officer Singhvi and another accused from Jaipur.
The bribe amount was allegedly sent by Chittorgarh-based mines owner Sher Khan.
The amount was supposed to be delivered to officers, including the IAS officer Singhvi, by middleman Sanjay Sethi.
ACB sleuths had seized around Rs 4.28 crore, including the bribe amount of Rs 2.55 crore in Udaipur and Chittorgarh and later recovered gold, silver, platinum, diamond jewellery and other valuable items worth Rs 3 crore from Singh's house and bank lockers in Jaipur.
177 bottles of expensive liquor were also seized from Singhvi's house for which a separate case was registered against him under excise act with local police station.
