Barabanki (UP), Oct 31 (PTI) A former district cooperative bank chairman has been arrested here in a 16-year-old case of alleged irregularities in the construction of a school building in Para Kunwar village, police said Monday.

Dhirendra Kumar Verma was arrested from his house in Lakhpeda Bagh locality on Saturday and was produced in a court, which sent him to judicial custody.

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The court of the chief judicial magistrate had earlier issued a non-bailable warrant against Verma in the case on October 22.

In 2006, an FIR was lodged against Verma, who was in charge of building a government school, following Basic Siksha Adhikari (BSA) Rajesh Kumar Verma's alleging that irregularities were committed in the construction work.

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