The Chief Ministerโ€™s Vigilance & Anti-corruption Cell of Assam caught two police officers posted at Gauripur police station of Dhubri district on Wednesday evening.

The arrested police officers have been identified as Satyajit Borthakur, officer-in-charge of Gauripur police station and Abu Kalam Azad, assistant sub-inspector of the same police station in Assamโ€™s Dhubri district.

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According to preliminary reports, the police officials have been arrested on the basis of complaints lodged by a number of persons before the Chief Ministerโ€™s Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Cell.

A team of Chief Ministerโ€™s Vigilance & Anti-corruption Cell from Guwahati launched an operation and caught the two police officers red-handed while taking a bribe of Rs 1,00,000 from a complainant.

The Vigilance and Anti-corruption team seized the money from the possession of the accused police officers.

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โ€œFurther investigation is on,โ€ police sources said.

More details are awaited.

Mukesh Kr Singh is Northeast Now Correspondent in Dhubri. He can be reached at: [email protected]