The police team probing the APSC job selection scam has arrested altogether 4 ACS grade 1( junior ) officers and 4 deputy police superintendents along with three officers charging them with resorting to forgery in the state civil service examination.
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.
“They are being interrogated. We are preparing to produce them before the special court seeking police remand. Beyond that we can't divulge anything,” said a police officer in the capital city.
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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