Who is Nupur Bora? Assam officer accused of illegal transfer of Hindus’ land

NEW DELHI: Nupur Bora, a 2019-batch Assam Civil Service (ACS) officer, has recovered herself astatine the halfway of a large corruption ungraded aft being arrested for alleged engagement successful amerciable onshore transfers and possession of disproportionate assets. Only six years into her career, Bora was serving arsenic the ellipse serviceman of Goraimari successful Kamrup territory erstwhile the CM’s vigilance compartment swooped successful connected her Guwahati residences. The raids yielded astir Rs 1 crore successful cash, on with diamonds and jewellery worthy lakhs, SP Rosie Kalita confirmed. The crackdown followed circumstantial complaints that Bora had been hoarding unexplained wealth. Investigators besides linked her to questionable onshore transactions successful Barpeta district, wherever she antecedently served.

“The authorities received accusation that this authoritative was transferring Hindus’ onshore to different assemblage erstwhile she was posted successful Barpeta. She has been connected our radar for the past six months,” CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said, pointing to corruption successful gross circles crossed minority-dominated areas of the state.

Bora’s nationalist persona paints a antithetic picture. Her Instagram relationship highlights her interests successful fashion, décor, and travel.

Behind the glamour, however, constabulary accidental she was amassing assets acold beyond her known income. Bora owns 2 apartments successful Guwahati’s Gotanagar neighbourhood, portion investigators besides searched properties linked to her alleged accomplice, Surajit Deka, successful Barpeta. The apprehension comes days aft the Assam furniture cleared a caller SOP requiring constabulary clearance for inter-religious onshore transactions, citing concerns implicit demographic changes and nationalist security. PM Narendra Modi, during his caller sojourn to the state, besides warned astir the menace of amerciable migration to Assam’s demographic balance. “This is the 25th lawsuit registered with the vigilance cell. The probe is ongoing, and we whitethorn retrieve much currency and assets,” SP Kalita said.