The District Transport Officer (DTO) of Sonitpur was arrested today on the charge of being involvement in the APSC cash-for-job scam, police said.
It has been alleged that the DTO, Prasenjit Kumar Ghosh, had got his job through unfair means during the tenure of former Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) chairman Rakesh Paul who has been arrested in 2016.
Ghosh was taken into custody while he was returning from an official conference at the Sonitpur Deputy Commissioner's office here, Additional Superintendent of Police Numal Mahatta said.
He was arrested and sent to the
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