Guwahati, July 15 (IBNS): Assam police has summoned 19 more officials of Assam Civil Service (ACS), Assam Police Service (APS) and other allied service, including a daughter of a BJP MP, for interrogation and handwriting verification in connection with the cash-for-job scam of Assam Public Service Commission (APSC).
The Dibrugarh police, who investigating the infamous job scam, have asked the 19 government officials to appear at the Special Branch of Assam police at Kahilipara in Guwahati on July 18 next.
The Dibrugarh police have summoned 13 ACS officer, 3 APS officers and one District Transport Officer (DTO), one Tax Superintendent and one Tax Inspector.
According to the reports, among the 19 government officials, who were appointed in 2016, one APS officer is the daughter of a BJP MP.
A top police officer said that, the officers, who were summoned, have been accused of obtaining the job under APSC through unfair means.
The summoned officers are, Suranjita Hazarika (DTO), Utpal Bhuyan (ACS), Barnali Das (ACS), Susovan Das (ACS), Dhruvojyoti Chakraborty (ACS), Manzoor Ilahi Laskar (ACS), Moon Mazoomdar (ACS), Mustafa Ahmed Borbhuyan (ACS), Saibur Rahman Borbhuyan (ACS), Monika Teronpi (ACS), Ganesh Chandra Das (ACS), Srabanti Sen Gupta (ACS), Deepsikha Phukan (ACS), Leena Krishna Kakati (ACS), Gulshan Daolagpu (APS), Pallavi Sharma (APS), Bhargav Phukan (APS), Rituraj Neog (Tax Superintendent ) and Nipon Kumar Pathak (Tax Inspector).
On June 20, Assam government had sacked 13 Assam Civil Service (ACS) officers from their services with immediate effect, who were arrested in connection with the cash-for-job scam of Assam Public Service Commission (APSC).
The officers, who have been sacked by the Assam government are – Dipak Khanikar, Dwithun Borgoyary, Debajit Bora, Pallabi Sarma Choudhury, Anirudhya Roy, Himangshu Choudhury, Kunal Das, Kamal Debnath, Geetali Doley, Badrul Islam Choudhury, Rajarshi Sen Deka, Rumi Saikia and Nishamoni Deka.
Earlier, Assam government had suspended 24 officers of Assam Civil Service (ACS), Assam Police Service (APS) and other allied services and sacked 3 other ACS officers, who were arrested by the Dibrugarh police in connection with the cash-for-job scam.
The Dibrugarh police had already arrested 34 government officers in connection with the scam.
The entire scam came to light after Dibrugarh police arrested an engineer named Naba Kanta Patir from Upper Assam’s Dibrugarh district after they caught him red handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 10 lakh from a lady doctor to provide a secured government job on Oct 27 in 2016.
Following the incident, Dibrugarh police had registered a case at Dibrugarh police station (case no 936/16) and arrested then chairman of APSC Rakesh Paul from Guwahati and later arrested few more persons including former members of APSC Samedur Rahman, Basanta Doley, Pabitra Kaiborta, Musharaf Hussain, Mabud Ali Choudhury, three ACS officers Bhaskarjyoti Dev Sharma, Bhaskar Dutta and Amit Sharma.
The investigating team had also grilled several officers of Assam Civil Service (ACS), Assam Police Service (APS) and other allied services for their alleged involvement with the scam.
On August 31 last year, the Gauhati High Court had granted bail to 10 accused persons including three Assam Civil Service (ACS) officials, who were arrested in connection with the cash-for-job scam of Assam Public Service Commission (APSC).
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
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