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A courtroom in Guwahati on Wednesday gave the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) custody of former Deputy Inspector General of Assam police Prasanta Kumar Dutta for six days.
The retired DIG, one of many prime accused in the leaking of query papers for appointing 597 unarmed sub inspectors, was arrested by the West Bengal police from Kakarbhitta on the India-Nepal border on Tuesday.
The CID had sought per week’s custody however the courtroom of the chief judicial Justice of the Peace prescribed six days. The courtroom additionally directed the CID to examine Mr. Dutta’s well being at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital earlier than interrogation.
The former DIG had examined detrimental for COVID-19 hours after a police staff that fetched him from northern West Bengal on Tuesday evening. The police, nonetheless, informed the courtroom that he was affected by hypertension, diabetes and cardiac drawback.
Jobs for money
Mr. Dutta and suspended Bharatiya Janata Party chief Diban Deka had allegedly assured jobs to many candidates for money.
Handwritten copies of the leaked query paper got to 50 job aspirants who sat for the “written test” at a guesthouse in Guwahati on September 19, a day forward of schedule.
Some 66,000 candidates had began answering the questions on the scheduled date when the examination was questioned following a social media add of the leaked query paper.
The “recruitment scam” noticed retired IPS officer Deepak Kumar stop because the chairman of the State Level Police Recruitment Board, which later rescheduled the date for the written take a look at to November 22.
At least 24 folks, together with the previous DIG and the BJP chief have been arrested for the query paper leak.
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