A special court in Guwahati has remanded 12 ACS, APS and allied service officers to 14 days police custody hours after they were arrested charging them with resorting to forgery in the state civil service examination.
The special court listened to the police who sought them in their remand to probe into the serious charges against them. “Since the charges are serious in nature. We want their custodial interrogation. The court accordingly agreed as we produced all the 12 arrested officers before it,” said a police officer who refused to be named.
Except one of them, all these civil and police officers were arrested in the wee hours on Wednesday from different placed and were taken to Guwahati for custodial interrogation. One of them surrendered before police in the afternoon.
Then they were taken to the Assam Police Battalion headquarters in Kahilipara for interrogation by the special investigation team set up to probe the case.
All of these officers appeared in the hand written test conducted by the special task force set up to probe in the entire cash for job scam.
The answer scripts were sent to the forensic laboratory for confirmation which did not match their answer scripts in the civil service examination conducted by the state public service commission when Rakesh Paul was it's chairman who is still in jail as prime accused.
The ACS grade 1 junior officers: Pallabika Sarma Chaudhury, Dipak Khanikar, Debojit Bora, Himangsu Chaudhury and Anirudh Roy.
The APS officers are Hemanta Saikia, Sabira Imran, Jayanta Kumar Nath, Harshajyoti Bora. Others include Amarjit Das and Sudipto Goswami who were from allied service.
Sources told Assam Times that more arrest are imminent in a couple of hours since a few wanted officers have gone untraced
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