The CBI's application allegedly did not conform to the Centre’s standard operating procedure for seeking prosecution sanction against public servants. (File Photo)

The Haryana government has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to submit separate prosecution sanction requests for each of the five IAS officers named in the Rs 504 crore banking fraud case involving state departments, saying the agency’s application did not conform to the Centre’s standard operating procedure (SOP) for seeking prosecution sanction against public servants.

The move comes amid the CBI probe into allegations that public servants acted in connivance with officials of IDFC First Bank and AU Small Finance Bank to divert and misappropriate funds belonging to eight Haryana government departments and public bodies from empanelled banks to selected branches of the two banks.

A senior Haryana government officer told The Indian Express on Tuesday that the central agency had approached the Centre seeking prosecution sanction…