Bengaluru Mar 4 (DHNS): Following directions from the state government, Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Saturday registered a case against retired Director General of Police H N Sathyanarayana Rao in connection with bribery charge made against him when he was the DGP (Prisons).

The decision follows the recommendations by retired IAS officer Vinay Kumar, who inquired into irregularities in the Prison department, that further inquiry needs to be conducted into charges of corruption in Bengaluru Central Prisons at Parappana Agrahara over providing special treatment to the jailed AIADMK leader V K Sasikala.

The government on March 1 accepted Kumar's recommendations and ordered further inquiry by the ACB.

Following this, the ACB on Saturday registered a complaint against Rao under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, said a release issued by the ACB. The then DIGP (Prisons) D Roopa had in her report to the state government expressed suspicion that Rs 2 crore was paid by Sasikala to get VVIP treatment at the jail.