Police arrest Assam Public Service Commission Chairman
A top police official said that, a team of Dibrugarh district police arrested APSC Chairman Rakesh Paul from Guwahati on Friday evening.
“Police interrogated Paul at Assam Police Special Branch headquarter in the city,” the official said.
A case was registered at Dibrugarh Sadar police station following arrested an engineer from Upper Assam’s Dibrugarh district after police caught him red handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 10 lakh on Oct 27.
The arrested engineer was identified as Naba Kumar Patir.
He is an assistant engineer of Town and Country Planning department of Assam government, posted at Dibrugarh town.
The top police official said that, the engineer was taking a bribe of Rs 10 lakh from a dentist to appoint in the Assam Medical College Hospital (AMCH).
Police also arrested a PSO of a member of APSC last week.
Meanwhile, Asomiya Yuba Mancha demanded the state government and Assam police to arrest all kingpins of APSC who were involved in irregularities in various appointments under the commission.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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