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Spree Of Arrests Of Assam Government Officials As State Sets ‘Vigilance Traps’

109 preliminary enquiries were pending in 2017 but till August 20 this year, 46 are pending.Guwahati: In the past week, Assam has seen at least five arrests of government employees who were caught red-handed while accepting bribes inside government offices by Assam's vigilance and anti-corruption directorate sleuths who have started a campaign to weed out corruption from government offices. 44 government employees have been arrested in the past 15 months.The number of corruption cases where the vigilance and anti-corruption directorate has submitted charge sheets has gone up by six times in the last five years. While in 2018 only six cases were charge-sheeted, this year till August 20, 36 cases have already been charge-sheeted according to vigilance and anti-corruption directorate data ...