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Guwahati, September 2 : The Gauhati High Court has ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the multi-crore rupees Louis Berger scam.
According to the reports, the court has ordered CBI to probe the scam after the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Assam police failed to file charge sheet of the scam before the court.
Following the court directive, the Assam government is likely to hand over the multi-crore rupees scam to CBI in next 2-3 days.
A high level source of the state government said that, Dispur will write to CBI in next 2-3 days asking for a probe into the scam.
Earlier, CID of Assam police had investigated the scam and received various crucial papers of the scam which surfaced in 2005.
CID had already submitted some documents before the court but failed to submit charge sheet of the scam.
Meanwhile, the state government has also received some crucial documents from the CID and the personnel and administration department will send the papers to the country's premier investigation agency.
The source said that, the secret documents of the scam may be invited trouble to some bureaucrates and political leaders, who accepted crore if rupees bribe from the New Jerasy based company to award of contracts for big water supply project in Guwahati.
It is to be mentioned that, two organisations of Assam had moved to the Gauhati High Court seeking its intervention to make a proper investigation into the scam.
The court had earlier slammed the CID for their negligence.
Recently, former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi demanded a CBI probe into the alleged role of the present finance and education minister of the BJP-led Assam government into the scam.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
