Guwahati, July 23 (IBNS): The Assam police have arrested one more government officer and two brokers including a district level BJP leader in connection with the cash-for-job scam of Assam Public Service Commission (APSC).
According to the reports, the Dibrugarh police arrested an officer of Assam Police Service (APS) identified as Kavita Das, who is presently serving as a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) in 19th IRBn in connection with the infamous scam.
Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) of Dibrugarh district Surajeet Singh Panesar said that, the investigating team arrested the DSP from Duliajan area.
On the other hand, police arrested two brokers on Sunday night.
Assam police have so far arrested 55 government officers including Pallavi Sharma, daughter of BJP MP RP Sharma, Rajarshi Sen Deka, son of former Assam minister Nilamoni Sen Deka.
On July 18, the Dibrugarh police had arrested 13 ACS officers, 3 APS officers, one District Transport Officer (DTO), one Tax Superintendent and one Tax Inspector in connection with the scam.
On June 20, The Assam government 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 entire scam came to light after the Dibrugarh police arrested an engineer named Naba Kanta Patir from Upper Assam’s Dibrugarh district after they caught him red handed accepting a bribe of Rs 10 lakh from a lady doctor to provide a secured government job on October 27 in 2016.
Following the incident, the 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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