Shillong, Feb 21 : The National Investigating Agency (NIA) today "strongly rebutted" a report in a weekly magazine which alleged that names of seven Assam ministers have been mentioned in its report on misuse of development funds for the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council.
"The report is totally false. We have sent a strong rebuttal to the Union home ministry yesterday," an SP of NIA, who is investigating the misuse of funds, told PTI here. He said the agency has not named any minister in its report as there was no evidence.
"The media report also mentioned that the police officials took huge amounts of money. Nothing of that sort has come to our knowledge," the official, who was also a part of the investigating team, said.
The national weekly magazine in its February 7 issue had carried a report alleging that the names of seven Assam ministers, including a Congress MP and an MLA and a former governor, have been mentioned in the NIA's report on misuse of development fund for the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council (NCHAC), triggering an uproar in the state.
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi has already shot off a letter to the magazine on his government's position regarding the report alleging involvement of seven state ministers in the Rs1,000 crore scam and threatened it with legal action.
Forest minister Rockybul Hussain had yesterday filed a criminal defamation case against the weekly.
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