Guwahati, Dec. 7: The vigilance and anti-corruption bureau of Assam police has registered a case against arrested Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) member Basanta Kumar Doley for allegedly seeking money from a job aspirant through a middleman.

Doley was arrested by Dibrugarh police on November 28 in connection with the investigation into the cash-for-jobs scam.

An official source told The Telegraph that the bureau recently registered a case against Doley based on a complaint by a woman claiming that he had asked for money through a middleman to get her a job in the health and family welfare department.

The bureau had registered the case under Sections 7 and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, which deals with a public servant taking gratification other than legal remuneration in respect of an official act, as well as criminal misconduct.

According to the complaint, a middleman had approached a BSc graduate from Nagaon and offered to get her selected for the post of district malaria officer under the health department in exchange of money.

The bureau has begun its preliminary probe into the matter but has yet to make any arrest.

Doley was a professor of English in Silapathar College in Upper Assam's Lakhimpur district before he was appointed APSC member by the earlier Tarun Gogoi government. He had burnt a heap of papers in his office chambers on November 5, a day after the commission's suspended chairman Rakesh Kumar Paul was arrested. Doley claimed that they were waste papers and he had asked his peon to burn them to ward off mosquitoes in the APSC office at Khanapara.

Before his arrest on November 28, he was allegedly absconding after the police began looking for him.

The bureau had investigated a disproportionate assets case against Paul on the direction of Gauhati High Court and submitted its preliminary report.

The bureau is also conducting a regular inquiry into allegations against another APSC member, Samedur Rahman, of amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.

Rahman was also arrested by Dibrugarh police for his alleged involvement in the cash-for-jobs scam and is in judicial custody.