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Police will take appropriate action against people involved in APSC Scam: Assam Police DG

| | Dec 06, 2016, at 10:58 pm
Guwahati, Dec 6 (IBNS): Assam Police DG Mukesh Sahai on Monday said that police will take appropriate action against those people who are involved in the Job-for-Cash scam under Assam Public Service Commission (APSC).

"The overall investigation is going  on proper direction and police will not excuse any person  who involved in the Job Scam," Sahai said.

The Assam DGP said  that the answer scripts were sent to Hyderabad for forensic examination, which were earlier found from the house of Rakesh Paul's wife and his brother owned printing press.

Assam Police earlier arrested APSC's sacked chairman Rakesh Paul and his two associate members Samedur  Rahman and Basanta Doley.

Meanwhile, APSC's arrested member Samedur Rahman was sent to 14-day judicial custody by a local court in Assam's Kamrup(Metro) district on Tuesday.

Samedur Rahman was produced  before the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) court in Kamrup(Metro) on Tuesday and the sent Rahman to 14-day judicial custody and asked to appear him before the same court on December 20.

Earlier the Special Judge’s court on Nov 22 had sent the APSC member on 14-day judicial custody.

Police had earlier arrested APSC’s Chairman Rakesh Paul on November 4 and  APSC’s Assistant Examination Controller Pabitra Koibatra from his residence at Lisubagan area near Hengerabari in the city on November 12.

Earlier Dibrugarh police arrested Mabud Ali Choudhury the PSO of Samedur Rahman in connection with the job scam.

Police also arrested an engineer from Upper Assam’s Dibrugarh district after police caught him red handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 10 lakh from a dentist to appint in the Assam Medical College Hospital (AMCH) on October 27.

  The arrested engineer was identified as Naba Kumar Patir and he is an assistant engineer of Town and Country Planning department of Assam government posted at Dibrugarh town.

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