Guwahati: Assam police have arrested three newly-appointed Assam Civil Service (ACS) officers in connection with the ongoing investigation into the cash-for-job scam that rocked Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) late last year.
The three ACS officers – revenue circle officers Amrit Sharma, Bhaskarjyoti Devsharma and Bhaskar Dutta were arrested on Tuesday night on charges of landing the plump government job by using duplicate answer scripts in the recruitment examination conducted by the APSC besides allegedly paying huge amount of money in cash as bribe. The arrested officials were being interrogated at the State police’s special branch headquarter here.
The state DGP, Mukesh Sahay on Wednesday informed that more newly recruited ACS officers were under the scanner for using duplicate answer scripts to get the job.
He said all the answer scripts were being scanned by forensic experts and more arrests were likely.
It may be mentioned that Assam police had recovered some answer scripts from the residence of the now arrested APSC chairman Rakesh Paul following the latter’s arrest in connection with the cash-for-job scam.
Paul is now in judicial custody after his bail petitions had been repeatedly rejected by the courts.
Two more members of the APSC, Samedur Rahman and Basanta Doley were also arrested in the same case.
