Former Assam Police DIG's Assets Worth Rs 53 Crore Attached in Corruption Case
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached assets valued at Rs 53 crore belonging to former Assam Police Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Prashanta Kumar Dutta. The attachment is part of an ongoing investigation into allegations of disproportionate assets.
The attached properties include multiple hotels in Guwahati—Hotel Bhargav and Bhargav Inn in Paltan Bazar, Hotel Bhargav at Lakhra, and Bhargav Grand at Betkuchi in Garchuk—as well as two buildings in Mumbai.
According to the ED, the assets are suspected to have been acquired between 1992 and 2019 during Dutta's tenure in government service, and are disproportionate to his known sources of income.
Dutta was also the prime accused in the Assam Police Sub-Inspector Recruitment Question Paper Leak case, one of the state's major recruitment scams. Following the allegations, he was dismissed from service. In October 2020, he was arrested by the West Bengal Police near the Indo-Nepal border after evading arrest for several months.
The ED's action is part of its ongoing efforts to recover assets allegedly linked to corruption and to prosecute those accused of amassing wealth through illegal means.
