Overview
- Assistant Tourism Officers Pranjal Bora and Ananya Borthakur were taken into custody on Tuesday in the Assam Tourism Department recruitment case.
- Nayanmoni Pamegam, earlier reported absconding, has been apprehended and is now under arrest in the same probe.
- Investigators say eight officials have been identified so far, with multiple suspensions already ordered within the department.
- The case centers on alleged irregular appointments from roughly 2010 to 2013, a period officials associate with the tenure of then tourism minister Rakibul Hussain.
- The CM Vigilance Cell says it registered a case citing Sections 13 and 25 and is scrutinizing appointment records, qualification documents and departmental correspondence.