Suspended DFO and ACS officers, engineer sent 5 day custody

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Suspended DFO and ACS officers, engineer sent 5 day custody

Guwahati: A suspended Assam Civil Service (ACS) officer, a Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) and a retired PWD engineer were arrested in three separate cases of disproportionate assets by officials of the Chief Minister’s Special Vigilance Cell (SVC) on Thursday, police said here. He has been arrested in separate cases.
They have been identified as Sukanya Borah (suspended ACS), retired PWD engineer Samed Ali and DFO Bhaskar Deka.
The three officers were produced in the court of a special judge here who remanded them in five-day custody of the CMKSVC for further investigation of the cases.
The arrested and suspended ACS officer was Sukanya Borah, former Additional District Commissioner (ADC) of Kamrup Metro District. He was suspended in March 2023 for irregularities in the implementation of projects under the Members of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) Fund.
In May, Borah’s anticipatory bail plea in connection with the case was rejected by the Guwahati High Court.
Borah faces allegations of using the names of family members and relatives to create assets beyond his known sources of income.
During the investigation, it came to light that Sukanya Borah’s aunt accused her of misappropriating the accumulated property by declaring her mother mentally unstable. The properties in question include coffee holdings in Guwahati, Morigaon, Hajo and North Guwahati, among other places.

Notably, MPLAD scam, in which Sukanya Borah was involved, there are allegations of misappropriation of funds from Rajya Sabha MP Ajit Kumar Bhuyan’s MPLAD fund. The funds were designated for the construction of a road in Barpeta.

However, it was revealed that the payment was approved before the completion of 75% of the road construction. Four suspended officers, including Sukanya Borah, were implicated in approving the payment prematurely.

Alongside Borah, the SVC also arrested retired PWD engineer Samed Ali and divisional forest officer (DFO) Bhaskar Deka, both of whom were uncooperative during the interrogation.

Bhaskar Deka, then DFO of Nagaon Forest Division, was arrested in connection with case No 5/2022 under sections 13(1) and 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act registered by the CM’s vigilance Cell.

During the investigation, it was revealed that Deka along with his wife had earned Rs 4,11,43,591 but his expenditure was Rs 6,39,65,205. His lively savings (income- expenditure) was Rs 2,28,21,614 but he possessed assets to the tune of Rs 1,32,04,470.

Deka possessed a disproportionate asset (DA) to the tune of Rs 3,60,16,084 against his known sources of income. The percentage of DA concerning income is 87.66 per cent.

Samed Ali, who was an executive engineer in the PWD department, retired in 2022 after a long service in Karimganj. Samed has been accused of owning several properties illegally.

The CM Vigilance team registered a case against Sameed Ali based on a complaint by an MLA, following which raids were carried out based on case No 9/2023 registered against him on December 15, last.

During their raid at Samed’s residence in Guwahati’s Lalmati area, the team seized several bank passbooks and recovered several land documents.

Samed owns many properties in the city, including his newly constructed residence in Sarumotoria, Beltola, and Zoo Road as well.

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