STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: The nine persons arrested in the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) de-siltation scam were produced in the Court of the Special Judge, Guwahati, which remanded them to judicial custody on Wednesday.
It may be recalled that the Chief Minister's Special Vigilance Cell arrested GMC OSD Babulal Sarma, Executive Engineer and Swacchata Officer Ashif Ahmed, Executive Engineer (Division I) Shankar Medhi, Executive Engineer (Division-II) Ramakanta Saikia, Executive Engineer (Division-III) Alin Begum, Executive Engineer (Division-IV) Chittaranjan Dutta, Executive Engineer (Division-V) Hiranya Barman and M/s Dinsan Global Venture Pvt Ltd Director (contractor) Dinesh Jaiswal on October 21 and they were in police custody for five days. The investigators arrested chief accounts officer Abhimanyu Medhi from his Nalbari residence and brought him to Guwahati on October 22. He was also produced in court on Wednesday and remanded to judicial custody.
The Chief Minister's Special Vigilance Cell suspects that two of the three accused evading arrest in the GMC de-siltation scam - GMC Chief Engineer Tasdiqur Rahman and Executive Engineer Simanta Jyoti Baruah - might have fled the State. Contractor Mithu Agarwal is also evading arrest.
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