A special court on Monday convicted former Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) chairman Rakesh Kumar Paul and 31 others in connec✅tion with a cash-for-jobs case related 💦to the appointment of agricultural development officers (ADO) in Assam.
Special Judge Dip꧋ankar Thakuria acquitted 11 others in connection with the case filed with the Bhangagarh police station here in 2017 for lack of evidence, while one person turned approver.
Paul, al🍷ong with two other members of the commission, Basanta Kumar Doley and Samedur Rehman,🐷 and other officials and middlemen were convicted in the case for tampering marks of the candidates who had appeared in the ADO recruitment examination.
The judge was yet to announce the quantum of the sentence of the convictedꩵ persons.
A ca🃏ndidate, who had failed to qualify for the job, had registered a complaint and a case🔥 was filed, alleging that the marks of another candidate had been increased in lieu of financial transactions.
He had earlier filed an RTI for information related to changes in the tabulation of marks and claimed that he ha💖d registered the complaint on the basis of its report.
Paul, ✅along with the other members and officials of the APSC, were arrested in connection with another cash-for-jobs case related to the Combined Competitive Examinations (CCE) for the recruitment of civil, police and other service officials.
The APSC was embroiled in a cash-for-jobs sca☂m and the Assam Police had arrested nearly 70 people, including Paul and 57 civil service officials, since 2016.
Paul was arrested by Dibr🀅ugarh Police in November 2016 and released on bail in March 2023.
The case related to the CCE is currently being investiꦅgated🔴 by a Special Investigative Team (SIT) on the directive of the Gauhati High Court.
