Guwahati: Fourteen gazetted officers, who were arrested in connection with the recruitment scam in the Assam Public Service Commission (APSC), were remanded in judicial custody for 14 days on Tuesday.

Police produced the accused before the special court, Assam, here after completion of their 14-day police remand. "The court sent them to judicial custody for 14 days," special public prosecutor Bijan Mahajan said.

The officers were arrested on November 8 on charges of securing their jobs through the APSC by illegal means.

Seven of the accused are Assam Civil Service officers Pallabi Sarma Choudhury, Dipak Khanikar, Debajit Bora, Anirudh Roy, Himangshu Choudhury, Kunal Das and Dwaithun Borgoyary, five are Assam Police Service officers Sabbira Imran, Jayanta Kumar Nath, Harsha Jyoti Bora, Hemanta Saikia and Jatindra Prasad Baruah while two are allied services officers Amarjit Das and Raju Saha.

Mahajan said their bail pleas will come up for hearing before the special court on Wednesday.

The police have arrested 23 gazetted officers in the crackdown on corruption. Efforts are on to trace two absconding accused - ACS officer Nisha Moni Deka and APS officer Rakesh Gupta.

The police said forensic examination had confirmed anomalies in the answer scripts of these 25 officers.

The case was registered by Dibrugarh police in October 2016, when a job aspirant, Anshumita Gogoi, lodged a complaint against engineer Nabakanta Patir, who allegedly offered her a government job through the APSC if she paid a bribe of Rs 10 lakh.

The police laid a trap and caught Patir while accepting money from Anshumita. Based on Patir's confession, former APSC chairman Rakesh Kumar Paul was arrested on November 4 last year.