Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister’s Vigilance Cell on Thursday had arrested a retired government official and a bank officer in connection with two separate scams.
According to the reports, the CM’s Vigilance Cell had arrested retired Additional Chief Engineer of PWD (Roads) Biswanath Bhattacharya at Guwahati.
Notably, during the tenure of Bhattacharya fake bills amounting to Rs 60 lakhs were passed by Tengakhat Rural Roads Subdivision of Dibrugarh PWD (Roads) Division.
After finding incriminating evidence of the retired officer’s involvement in the case, CM’s Vigilance Cell arrested Bhattacharya.
Seven persons had already been arrested in the case including executive engineer, engineer, junior engineer, contractor.
Following the direction of the Assam chief minister to register a case in the matter, CM’s Vigilance Cell registered a case and started investigation which resulted in the arrest of seven persons apart from Biswanath Bhattacharya’s arrest on Thursday.
On the other hand, CM’s Vigilance Cell had also arrested Bank of Baroda’s Hailakandi Branch Manager Gautam Das at Guwahati for embezzling Rs 1.39 crore through Kishan Credit Card scam.
Das served as the Manager of the Hailakandi Branch of Bank of Baroda, while the Kishan Credit Card scam took place between the years 2011 and 2015.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
