GUWAHATI: Former Congress MLA from Sonai legislative constituency, Enamul Haque Laskar, was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department over a multi-crore scandal in the irrigation department on Monday, October 21 in Guwahati.
As per reports, Laskar was allegedly involved in financial irregularity involving Rs 270 crores during the Congress’s rule in the state from 2006-2011.
He was appointed as Officer on Special Duty in the irrigation department in 2009.
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Earlier, Mathur Chandra Nath, an irrigation department employee, who committed suicide on November 26 in 2012, in a 22-page suicide note, alleged that Laskar had pressurized him to collect fund from contractors.