Guwahati, Jan 6 (TIWN) The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Assam has arrested two more persons including a business correspondent of a nationalised bank, for reported embezzlement of pre-matric scholarship funds for minority students totalling about Rs 10 crore for the past two financial years. This has taken the total number of arrests from four districts of the state to 32, officials said on Tuesday.

A CID team, along with the help of local police, raided various locations under Nagarbera and Boko police stations in Kamrup district in the intervening night of Sunday and Monday and arrested the duo, identified as Md. Ashraf Ali (33) and Mustafa Ahmed (31).

Ali, who hails from Badla Pathar village under Nagarbera police station, is a business correspondent cum owner of a CSP (customer service point) of a nationalised bank at Malibari Bazaar.  Ahmed, from Jawakatadiya village under Boko police station, played the role of a middleman to misappropriate scholarship money meant for students of the minority community in Barpeta district, sources said.  With this development, the number of arrests in connection with the CID police station case (number 20/2020 under sections 120(B)/406/409/419/420/468/471 IPC/ added sections 66C and 66D I.T Act) has gone up to 32.