Guwahati, Nov 14, 2025

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.

The federal probe agency said that fraudulent proposals

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