April 12, 2026 07:31 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Legendary singer Asha Bhosle suffers cardiac arrest, hospitalised | Big boost to India–Mauritius ties: S. Jaishankar hands over 90 e-buses | Middle East tension: Iranian delegation arrives in Islamabad for major talks, 10,000 security personnel deployed | Ranveer Singh visits RSS HQ amid Dhurandhar 2 success, triggers speculation | ED raids ex-Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee; SSC scam resurfaces ahead of polls | Amit Shah promises UCC, ₹3,000 aid per month for women and youth in BJP’s Bengal manifesto | Nitish Kumar takes Rajya Sabha oath; power shift looms in Bihar | Sting video fallout: AIMIM snaps electoral ties with Humayun Kabir in Bengal | Israel says Hezbollah chief’s nephew-cum-secretary killed in Beirut strikes last night | Modi slams TMC on trade, fisheries at Haldia; vows 7th pay commission for govt employees

Assam V&AC sleuth arrests police official for taking bribe

| | Apr 25, 2017, at 01:05 am
Guwahati, Apr 24 (IBNS): The sleuths of Vigilance of Anti-Corruption of Assam police on Monday arrested a police official for allegedly taking bribe in Kamrup district.

Following a complaint by a person, a V&AC team arrested red handed a sub-inspector Bakul Saikia of Boko police station in the lower Assam district while the police official has taken bribe from the complainer.

“The arrested police official had allegedly taken bribe for clearance of seizure articles, vehicles,” a top police official said.

The V&AC had arrested over 30 government officials for taking bribes in this year so far.

In last year, the sleuths of V&AC had arrested DFO Mahat Talukdar from his office in Dhemaji.

Recently, the V&AC team arrested the secretary of state Irrigation department Kujendra Doley from his office in Dispur Janata Bhawan for allegedly taking bribes from a contractor.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

 

 

Image:google maps

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.