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His resignation is seen as an effort to maintain transparency and avoid any ethical complications in the matter
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Guwahati: Guwahati Police on Sunday arrested the prime accused involved in forging Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s signature. The accused, Imran Shah Choudhury, was arrested in Delhi by a police team from Guwahati and was brought back here in Guwahati via special flight yesterday. He, and another accused, Rajib Kalita, had fled from Assam to Delhi after learning an FIR had been filed.
"Imran Shah Choudhury had claimed it was very easy for him to get them (four others) a contract in the PHE (public health engineering) department directly via the Chief Minister's Office... he would take three per cent as commission," Assam Police said in a statement.
The police said Choudhury gave the four men forged papers that they submitted to the Chief Engineer of the PHE department.
Police further said Imran Choudhury created the forged documents with the help of three people - Dilip Das, Anupam Choudhury and Prakash Basumatary. The four scanned Mr. Sarma's actual signature to create the forged document in the shop of a fifth person - Naba Roy.
A case was registered at the Dispur Police Station after an FIR was lodged by the Chief Minister's Office, stating that "a note had been given to the Chief Engineer (PHE, Water) - for work to be allotted in the name of Lohit Construction - with the forged signature of the Chief Minister.
Soon after, a rapid investigation began after police from Guwahati and Sivsagar picked up the four persons - Binit Poddar, Dipjyoti Dutta, Jaimini Mohan, Pankaj Gogoi - connected to Lohit Construction.
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