Two P&RD officials arrested in Assam
Guwahati: A team of Dhubri Police arrested two more officials of the Panchayat and Rural Development for allegedly siphoning government funds.
The arrested persons have been identified as Gauripur Block Development Officer (BDO) Khabir Uddin Ahmed and accountant Akhirul Islam.
It may be mentioned that earlier on August 26, two accredited engineers of the Assam Panchayat and Rural Development were arrested from West Bengal in the same case.
Dhubri Zilla Parishad had registered a case against two engineers and a contractor of Assam. Based on the complaint, a team of the Assam Police with the help of West Bengal Police arrested the enginers from a remote village in West Bengal.
The arrested engineers were identified as Saddam Hussain and Abdullah Al-Masud Mollah of Gauripur Development Block of Dhubri district. They were accused of allegedly siphoning off Rs 52.72 lakh by approving fake bills from a contractor identified as Jahidul Haque who allegedly had not done any sort of work related to the bills issued.
With the new arrests, the number of persons arrested has risen to four while another accused of the case, Jahidul Hoque is still on the run, and efforts to nab the said accused are still on.