Guwahati, Nov 14 || The CBI has arrested an absconding accused from Itanagar in connection with a fraud aimed at illegally availing government credit and subsidies for horticulturists, an official said on Friday.
Tonia Langkam was apprehended on Thursday in a case that pertains to the fraudulent submission of applications under the scheme ‘Development of Commercial Horticulture through Production and Post-Harvest Management’ of the National Horticulture Board (NHB), Guwahati.
He was later produced before a Special CBI Court in Guwahati, which remanded him to judicial custody, the official said in a statement.
The CBI said the accused had been absconding since the day of the filing of the chargesheet in the fraud case in 2009.