{"id":70915,"date":"2019-06-28T01:07:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T19:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=70915"},"modified":"2019-06-28T01:07:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T19:37:50","slug":"sic-arrests-je-in-connection-with-tah-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/06\/28\/sic-arrests-je-in-connection-with-tah-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"SIC arrests JE in connection with TAH scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[Amar Sangno]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Jun 27:<\/strong> In a major crackdown as part of the probe into the Trans-Arunachal Highway (TAH) scam, the special investigation team (SIC) arrested Kabak Bath, a junior engineer of the PWD, on Thursday afternoon, informed SIC SP M Harsha Vardhan.<br \/>\n&#8220;Kabak Bath was arrested in connection with FIR No 2\/19 of the SIC police station case, under Sections 409, 420, 467, 468 and 471 of the IPC, read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act,&#8221; the SP said.<br \/>\nSpeaking to The Arunachal Times, Vardhan said Bath was arrested at around 5:45 pm, in connection with the ongoing investigation into the scam involved in the disbursement of compensation for the construction of the 157.7-km Bopi-Potin road.<br \/>\n&#8220;The arrest was made after the investigation of the money trail pointed to the role of the JE in the case,&#8221; the SP said.<br \/>\n&#8220;Bath was arrested at the Itanagar police station after he was questioned about the money trail and he could not give answers. He was not cooperating in unearthing the conspiracy,&#8221; Vardhan said.<br \/>\nThe multi-crore TAH scam is considered to be the one of biggest scams in Arunachal Pradesh.<br \/>\n&#8220;The total compensation amount is Rs 188 crore. We are still ascertaining how much of it went to fake beneficiaries. It is likely to be around Rs 50-60 crore,&#8221; the SP said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Amar Sangno] ITANAGAR, Jun 27: In a major crackdown as part of the probe into the Trans-Arunachal Highway (TAH) scam, the special investigation team (SIC) arrested Kabak Bath, a junior engineer of the PWD, on Thursday afternoon, informed SIC SP M Harsha Vardhan. &#8220;Kabak Bath was arrested in connection with FIR No 2\/19 of the [&hellip;]<\/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-70915","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\/70915","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=70915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}