A provincial court judge from the B.C. Interior who was arrested last year following an incident at a downtown Vancouver hotel has stepped down from the bench, it was announced Thursday.

Balwinder William Sundhu was arrested by Vancouver police at the Four Seasons Hotel in February 2006, following complaints from staff about a drunk customer who was harassing staff.

The judge spent the night in jail, and later was charged with causing a disturbance.

A special prosecutor stayed the charge in November, with Sundhu agreeing to enter an alternative measures program, which includes restitution.

The chief judge of the provincial court, Hugh Stansfield, said he has now stopped his own investigation because of Sundhu's resignation.

"Judge Sundhu has resigned his office as a judge of the provincial court of British Columbia, and there's no continuing process, because he's made a decision to take an action which really is the end of any process that could happen."

Sundhu had been a judge since 1996, and the chief administrative judge of the Kamloops region since November 2005.