Today, 22 July Gauhati High Court has convicted 32 individuals including former APSC Chairman Rakesh Paul in APSC Agriculture Development Officer (ADO) recruitment scam.
The scam involved irregularities during the selection process of ADO recruitment in 2013. A case has registered under Bhangagarh PS Case NO. 159/2017, against the selection process for ADO position advertisement 2013.
The APSC-scam has exposed in the year 2015-2016, in that allegation that candidate has given bribe to the officials to secure the government job.
The Gauhati Court today convicts 32 individual who involved in the APSC job-for-scam. They have been imprisonment for seven years. The court also acquitted 11 individuals, who previously implicated in the scam.
Among those convicted individual are Rakesh Kumar Paul, Basanta Kumar Doley, Samedur Rahman, and Binata Rynjha, who is now declared as the key witness of the Scam.
The acquitted 11 individuals are:
- Vikas Pincha,
- Kunal Das,
- Kaushik Kalita,
- Musharaf Hussian,
- Beauty Gogoi,
- Feroz Maran,
- Jyotiban Dutta,
- Seiz Ali Zohri,
- Dritiman Roy,
- Mausomi Saikia
- Boichitra Hakmaosa.
Among them some are middleman, APSC employee and candidate.
It is to known that this scam is part of APSC-job-for scam. Former APSC Chairman Rakesh Paul, who played the central role in the scam.
The verdict come after legal proceeding and investigation. The full details of the sentenced and the impact on the convicted are awaited.
Also read: 21 Officer suspended under APSC cash-for-job scam in Assam
