Former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Gegong Apang was on Tuesday arrested by sleuths of a Special Investigation Cell (SIC) probing the Rs. 1000-crore scam in Public Distribution System (PDS) in Arunachal Pradesh.
Mr. Apang was arrested outside the SIC office and later produced before a court of Special Judge at Lakhimpur in Assam.
The court remanded him to seven days in police custody.
Mr. Apang has been booked under Sections 120b (criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating), 468 (forgery), 409 (criminal breach of trust) of IPC read with B-2 of the Prevention of Corruption Act. “We have documentary materials and oral evidences given by co-accused of his involvement in the PDS scam of siphoning government money by making false and fraudulent subsidy bills. The scam caused about Rs. 1,000 crore loss to the government of India,” SIC investigating Officer M.S. Chauhan told The Hindu.
Former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Gegong Apang, who served as the second longest serving Chief Minister in the country with a record 22 years, mostly with the party, has resigned and joined the BJP.
Mr. Apang, in a letter to Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee president on February 17, resigned from the primary and active membership of the party, party sources said.
He joined the BJP in New Delhi during the day in the presence of senior party leaders, Arunachal Pradesh BJP unit president Tai Tagak said here on Thursday.
Mr. Tagak said that the formal announcement would be made during the Vijay Sankalp Abhiyan Rally to be held at Pasight in East Siang district on February 22, which would be addressed by BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
Mr. Apang is not new to the BJP as he had led a BJP-led coalition government in the State during 2003 for 42 days.
Source - The Hindu
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