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ITANAGAR, 7 Jan:<\/strong> The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed another FIR in the cash-for-job scam of the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) and will formally take over the case, a senior police officer said here on Saturday.<\/p>\n The CBI filed the FIR on Friday against a case pertaining to all irregularities committed in the examinations conducted by the APPSC since 2014, Special Investigation Cell (SIC) SP Anant Mittal said.<\/p>\n The SIC has been investigating the case and has arrested 46 persons so far, including 39 government officials.<\/p>\n “The SIC had received 36 complaints regarding various examinations conducted by the APPSC since 2014. The investigation was started after clubbing all the cases into a single case and 46 people were accordingly arrested,” Mittal said.<\/p>\n Among those arrested, 39 are government servants. The respective departments have been served with the information of the arrest for necessary departmental proceedings, the SP added.<\/p>\n The state government had recently recommended for CBI enquiry into the case in addition to the paper leak case being investigated by the premier investigating agency.<\/p>\n Mittal said the SIC feels that the prime accused, Taket Jerang, is not revealing the entire truth of the scam. It thus sought a narcoanalysis test from the court, which gave the permission to go ahead.<\/p>\n He said that all efforts are being made to gather evidence from Taket Jerang on the alleged involvement of former APPSC chairman Nipo Nabam and other officials of the commission.<\/p>\n The former APPSC chairman was interrogated, but no solid evidence has yet been received by the SIC to confirm his involvement.<\/p>\n “However, the SIC believes that Jerang is hiding important evidence. This can be revealed only after the narcoanalysis test,” he added.<\/p>\n Mittal said the SIC has already submitted all the relevant documents of the case to the CBI.<\/p>\n “We will not investigate the case anymore. However, when the CBI requires inputs from SIC, we will cooperate,” he added.<\/p>\n The question paper leak incident of assistant engineer (civil) exam, conducted by the APPSC came to light when one Gyamar Padung, a candidate, filed a police complaint before the Itanagar police station on 29 August last year, claiming that he suspected that the AE (civil) examination paper had been leaked.<\/p>\n More than 400 candidates appeared in the examination held on 26 and 27 August.<\/p>\n In October last year, the state government handed over the case to the CBI.<\/p>\n The CBI filed a chargesheet against 11 accused persons at the district & sessions court in Yupia near here, on 8 December.<\/p>\n The premier investigating agency had taken over the investigation on 27 October after the state government recommended for a probe by the CBI. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 7 Jan: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed another FIR in the cash-for-job scam of the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) and will formally take over the case, a senior police officer said here on Saturday. The CBI filed the FIR on Friday against a case pertaining to all irregularities committed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-208456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}