Silchar, May 16: The bail plea of a retired Assam Civil Service (ACS) officer Bahnisikha Dutta, who went on a superannuation from her last job as the chief executive officer of the Cachar zilla parishad on February 28, was rejected by a one-judge bench of Gauhati High Court yesterday.

Dutta has been accused in four separate cases filed in Silchar (Sadar) police station by Cachar additional dep-uty commissioner S.K. Das.

The FIR was filed on charges of alleged misappropriation of nearly Rs 1.5 crore from the zilla parishad and siphoning off the funds without any authorisation from the government on her last working day on February 28.

She had reportedly withdrawn this amount on the cheques issued to the local branches of the SBI and the Union Bank of India.

Dutta pleaded for interim bail in her third and last bail plea in the high court’s one-judge bench of T. Vaiphe yesterday through her lawyer Bijon Mahajan, but the judge scrapped her appeal for a seven-day bail.

Cachar district superintendent of police Diganta Bora claimed that Dutta’s bail plea was rejected by the court on the basis of the police investigations into the charges against her and the district administration’s report.

Police sources here said a team of policemen from the district would soon leave for Calcutta to secure Dutta’s surrender. Dutta has a home in Calcutta and is staying there at present.