Suspicious money transactions in APDCL cash-for-job scam: CM’s vigilance cell to interrogate

Oct. 4: Cash-for-job scam seems to cast its shadow in one after another department in Assam. As of now, the APDCL is under the scanner of the vigilance cell for being involved in cash-for-job scam. The APDCL conducted the recruitment examinations for the posts of office-cum-field assistants, sahayaks and light vehicle drivers on 17 February, 2019, and April 28, 2019, with the help of a third party, NEICOM.

The Chief Minister’s Special Vigilance Cell (SVC) had earlier received information of suspicious money transactions between 300 candidates and culprits behind the APDCL recruitment scam. In the first phase, the CM’s SVC has summoned 124 candidates for interrogation, of which 10 were supposed to have been interrogated on Monday.

The CM’s Special Vigilance Cell registered a case 04/2021 u/s 120B/420/468/471 IPC, r/w Section 7/13(b) of PC (Amendment) Act, 2014 and arrested 10 people in connection to the case till now. They were Dipankar Dihingia, OSD to APDCL Chairman; Sasanka Saikia, LDA, GU; Tridip Sarma, a person of Expedia ESolutions outsourced by GU; Babilon Kakati, private security of GU; and six employees of NEICOM – Dulumoni Deka, Farha Alam, Jayanta Deka, Kankan Sarma, Kaushik Das, and Biswajit Barman.