September 4, 2023: Siddhartha Buragohain, the Former Superintendent of Police (SP) of Bajali, has been arrested by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) in Assam on Monday. He has been questioned since this morning.
Earlier, Buragohain was transferred to Assam Police headquarters in Guwahati.
Currently, Ajagwaran Basumatary who was serving as the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Security) in Guwahati has been appointed as the new SP of Bajali.
On September 1, CID had detained a total of seven people including five police personnel and two drivers from Bajali for allegedly demanding money. Later, five police officers namely Bhawanipur Police Outpost SP Debajit Giri, Patacharkuchi ASI Sasanka Das, PSO ABC Injamamul Hassan, Bajali SP’s driver Dibjoy Roy and Nabir Ahmed were arrested on September 2nd.