Over a month after the suicide of a woman forest official, the Maharashtra Police has arrested M.S. Reddy, a suspended Indian Forest Service officer, who was the Melghat Tiger Reserve (MTR) Field Director, officials said here on Thursday.

"Following a high-level enquiry conducted in the past one month by an IPS officer, an offence has been registered against Reddy on Wednesday. He was nabbed by the Dharni Police from the forest officers housing complex in Civil Lines here late last evening," Maharashtra Vanrakshak-Vanpal Association Executive President Hiranand M. Mishra told IANS.