CBI Arrests Fugitive in NHB Subsidy Fraud After 16 Years on the Run

Overview

• CBI officials apprehended accused Tonia Langkam on November 13 in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh.
• He was produced before the Special CBI Court in Guwahati, which remanded him to judicial custody.
• Investigators say he had evaded arrest since a chargesheet named him and others in 2009.
• The probe alleges 173 proposals were approved using names from Lohit, Lower Dibang Valley, and East Siang districts.
• CBI reports that applications and documents were fabricated at co-accused Tarik Tolam’s Guwahati residence with help from local youths under Langkam’s supervision.