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Assam: Dispur Police Nabs Seven Touts Of Govt Jobs From City Lodge

The touts were reportedly engaged in preparing a list of candidates for posts in the Water Resources department when they were apprehended by the police team, which had gone to raid the lodge based on specific inputs.

Assam: Dispur Police Nabs Seven Touts Of Govt Jobs From City Lodge

Sentinel Digital Desk

GUWAHATI: Seven touts engaged in a cash- for- jobs scam in the Water Resources department were apprehended on Sunday night by Dispur Police.

According to reports emerging today, the seven suspected touts were picked up from a lodge in the Borbari area, close to state capital Dispur, by a special investigating team from the Dispur police station.

They were reportedly engaged in preparing a list of candidates for posts in the Water Resources department when they were apprehended by the police team, which had gone to raid the lodge based on specific inputs.

The seven touts are said to have been operating in the state for a long time now and that they had spread their tentacles in different districts of the state to ensnare gullible candidates looking to get appointments in government jobs through the back door.

Dispur police is said to have started interrogation of the seven touts and further reports are awaited.

This development comes close on the heels of the arrest of Victor Das, a coaching institute instructor in the city, who tried to blow the lid off a similar scam which allegedly involved even ex- MLAs demanding money for appointments into Grade III and IV posts for which the state government had held direct recruitment tests across the state on August 21 and 28. The exams were held amid unprecedented security measures put in place for a recruitment exam, with internet services shut down for the duration of the exam and Section 144 imposed in a radius of 100 metres in and around the examination centres.

Das was subsequently arrested by the Assam Police for false allegations and DGP Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta had informed that Victor Das had failed to provide specific information regarding his allegations. Das, however, said that he had provided phone numbers to the police, of candidates complaining about demands for money in the cash- for- jobs scam.

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