ASSAM: FIR LODGED AGAINST OC TAMULPUR

4 July 2018:

A team of Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption, Assam, Guwahati, led by a DSP rank officer, laid a trap at the PS premises based on an FIR demanding for illegal gratification by Inspector Upendra Nath Sarma, OC Tamulpur PS of Baksa District. The complaint is the lady.

Meanwhile the suspected officer had demanded 5 lakh as illegal gratification for releasing a DI Pick-up Vehicle,   which the local police had seized from the belonging to the husband of the complainant.

The husband of the complainant, Shri Pankaj Kalita, had been arrested in a murder case  in the first week of March. Around the same time, the local police had also seized a vehicle belonging to the said arrested person and husband of complainant.

Today the complainant and her mother in-law proceeded to Police station with trap amount of Rs 1 lakh to Police Station compound and as directed by the OC over phone and the accused officer deputed one home guard, Hafiz Ali, to collect the money of 1 lakh from the complainant. The home guard accepted the amount in the Barrack where the home guard lived, in the police station compound itself.

However the home guard on counting the money grew suspicious and returned the money to the complainant and asked them to come next day. On being alerted the trap team and the witnesses entered the PS compound  but the Home guard had quickly absconded.

The Trap team is carrying out further investigation at the Tamulpur PS compound and the Home guard is found to be absconding. The seized vehicle is found lying in the compound of the PS which has been seized in connection with the ACB PS and a case has been registered in this connection. Inspector Upendra Nath Sarma, OC  Tamulpur ps is  named accused in the FIR.

Meanwhile in an another parallel operation today, based on an FIR regarding demand for illegal gratification of Rs10,000/- by  an employee of Income Tax office under North Lakhimpur PS, a team of Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption,  and Lakhimpur Police in a joint operation, led by a DSP rank officer , have caught Smt Janmoni Bhuyan Sharma alias Rupali Das, red handed while accepting bribe from the complainant, Tanmoy Dutta. She was caught accepting a amount of Rs 5,000/- at about 11:35 in the office building of the Income Tax officer in lakhimpur town.

The accused by misusing her official position had demanded bribe to get the work done regarding a exemption certificate needed for the complainant friend Tomnya Geyi . She was arrested for having accepting Rs 5000/-as advance money from the complainant .Further she has been brought to Guwahati for production before the Special Court, Assam.