Senior official arrested on suspicion of graft in Arunachal Pradesh

Itanagar: The Special Investigation Cell (SIC) of Arunachal Pradesh Police (APP) has arrested an Arunachal government’s senior official in connection with a case related to alleged ‘irregularities in the disbursement of land compensations given against the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) broad gauge project from Murkongselek (Assam’s Jonai) to Pasighat (East Siang in Arunachal).
SP SIC Hemant Tiwari informed here that Tamiyo Tatak, one of the accused in the said case, presently serving as Joint Secretary Research, Government of Arunachal Pradesh (GoAP) was arrested from Pasighat last evening.
“This matter pertains to the irregularities committed during the entire process of land acquisition (fixation of land value and disbursement of the compensation) for construction of ‘Ruksin-Pasighat’ segment of broad gauge railway line from Murkongselek to Pasighat,” he said.
The SP SIC said that Tatak had served as Deputy Commissioner of East Siang district during 2017 when the disbursement of compensation was done.
Further investigation, in this case, is going on, he informed.
It may be mentioned here that Chief Minister Pema Khandu had last month informed the Assembly that in phase-1 of the said project, around Rs 73 crore had been paid which included admin charges, for just a seven km stretch.
Khandu claimed that he had personally gone through the file (project) and noticed that there was an alteration in it.
“I had noticed there was alteration in that file, approval was for something and decision given was for something else,” he said.