Development commissioner S K Choudhary today took over as the new Jharkhand chief secretary after A K Singh was removed, according to official sources here.

Singh has been made director general of Administrative Training Institute, the sources added.

Singh's removal has come, days after Congress MLA Chandrasekhar Dubey had demanded his outster claiming that the officer had corruption charges against him when he was the managing director of Bihar Financial Corporation in undivided Bihar.

The chief secretary issue had rocked the house for two/three days during the ongoing budget session with speaker C P Singh expunging certain remarks made by Dubey, who had trooped to the well in the assembly raising slogans in the first week of March.

He brought the issue after governor M O H Farook in his inaugural address to the budget session on February 28 said the Arjun Munda government had zero tolerance against corruption.

Dubey sought to know if the government had zero tolerance against corruption then why was Singh continuing as chief secretary when he had corruption charges against him.