Overview
- The suspended officers are Divisional Forest Officer Abhinav Kumar, District Agriculture Officer Miram Perme, District Horticulture Officer C K Tayum, and District Land Revenue and Settlement Officer Takam Kechak.
- The state has requested the Ministry of Home Affairs to suspend East Kameng deputy commissioner Himanshu Nigam, who chaired the Ground Verification Board.
- The Fact-Finding Committee, formed on August 13, reported serious omissions by the verification team in its November 4 interim findings.
- The alleged irregularities involve compensation for the 125.55 km Lada–Sarli segment of the 1,748 km Arunachal Frontier Highway along the India–China border.
- Complaints from landowners cite bypassed surveys and excluded genuine claimants, and the compensation award was processed under the RFCTLARR Act with funds deposited on April 17.