Assam: Over Rs 7 lakh found in Dibrugarh transport officer's house

Prasenjit Deb/ Rajib Dutta
GUWAHATI/DIBRUGARH: In continuation of the action against corruption at Dibrugarh district transport office, sleuths of the vigilance and anti-corruption cell of Assam Police recovered Rs 7,03,800 unaccounted cash and demonetized notes worth Rs 87,000 from the residence of district transport officer Sanjib Hazarika during a raid .
The sleuths had on Thursday arrested a junior assistant at the DTO's office, Ditimoni Gogoi, and recovered Rs 9,30,500 from her residence.
Gogoi was arrested after a broker was caught red-handed accepting a bribe of Rs 700 from a person allegedly on her behalf for facilitating the offline payment of road tax. The broker, identified as Pankaj Saikia, was also arrested by the vigilance and anti-Corruption cell.
On Thursday, the cell had raided the house of Saikia located at Dibrugarh's Tengakhat area and seized several documents from his residence.
With this, the probe agency has seized around Rs 17,21,300 in the last two days.