Assam multi crore scam: V&AC sleuths raid at social welfare office in Dispur Janata Bhawan

According to the reports, the V&AC team raided the office and seized 24 files of ICDS and SNP schemes under the department.

Earlier, the V&AC had arrested six officials of social welfare department on February 27 in connection with a multi crore rupees scam of the department.

The arrested officials are District officer of Goalpara Hemi Borah, District officer of Kamrup Kishori Dutta, Accounts officer RS Bhattacharya, UD assistant Debasish Dey, LD assistant Sajid Hussain and Programme officer Kulen Saikia.

The six officials are among the 11 officials, who were interrogated by the V&AC sleuths.

In connection with the multi crore scam, the V&AC team had also grilled three former Congress ministers including Akon Bora, Gautam Roy and Ajanta Neog.

The vigilance team had grilled at least 32 officials including three IAS officials into the scam.

Last year, Assam CM had directed to probe the multi crore scam during the previous Congress regime.

During the investigation it is revealed that an amount of Rs 150 crore was siphoned off every year from the social welfare department of the state for the past 15 years.

The investigation also detected nine lakh fake entries of ‘ghost children’ in the ICDS list.

The top official of V&AC said that 390 fake Anganwadi centres have been identified, which were fraudulently entered for siphoning off the money.

The V&AC sleuths had arrested an employee of Social Welfare department last year.

The investigating team had also seized several dozen files in connection with the multi crore rupees scam.