Cash-For-Jobs Scam: Dr Ajanta Hazarika Suspended from AMCH

GUWAHATI: Additional Superintendent and Registrar of Plastic Surgery Department, Dr Ajanta Hazarika of Assam Medical College and Hospital (AMCH) has been suspended from her duty for her alleged role in the cash-for-jobs scam.

Further, the doctor has been removed from the post of Additional Superintendent of AMCH and Deputy Superintendent of proposed Tinsukia Medical College.

Superintendent of the AMCH, Prashanta Dihingia informed that her suspension order was recently issued by the state health department.

Earlier, in December 2020, the absconding doctor surrendered before the court of session judge.

Notably, the resident doctor evaded her arrest for 22 days. The police conducted a search operation at her residence at Naliapool in Dibrugarh district and have already arrested her husband Simanta Jyoti Hazarika and sent him to judicial custody.

Meanwhile, police have also seized all bank accounts of Dr Hazarika.

It has been alleged that she had taken money from one Amol Nath and two others with a promise to get them appointed in NF Railway.

Dibrugarh police registered a case against Dr Hazarika (case No 2150/20 u/s 120(B), 420, 409 and 506 ) following lodging of an FIR at Gavarupathar Police Station by one Amal Nath and two other youths alleging that Dr Hazarika had taken Rs 22 lakh from them in the pretext to offering a job in Indian Railways and OIL.

Two victims -- Kishore Deb and Ajay Dutta Biswas -- recorded their statements in Dibrugarh CJM court in connection with the 'cash-for-job' scam.

Nath alleged that he had transferred half of the amount sought by Dr Hazarika to the bank accounts of Rajeev Parashar at Six Mile in Guwahati.

The statement of Dr Hazarika's driver, Bhola Tiwari, was also recorded in the court.

In another case, Rajeev Parashar was arrested by Guwahati crime branch in October 2020 for his alleged involvement in extorting money from candidates of various other public service recruitment examinations.

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