The Assam government will hand over 32 trading or deposit scam cases to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and develop a standard operating procedure (SOP) to check such activities in the future.

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Friday night that the state cabinet had decided to hand over cases registered at various police stations in connection with unregulated deposits involving “fraudulent transactions and trading of huge amounts of money in a wrongful manner” to the CBI.

The state cabinet, which met on Friday, also directed the home and finance departments to jointly draft an SOP to prevent the occurrence of such activities in the future.

The chief minister said 32 cases will be handed over to the CBI now and similar cases unearthed in the future will also be handed over to the premier investigating agency.

“I had discussed the issue with Union home minister Amit Shah. He has given his nod to our proposal to hand over the cases to the CBI. The accused had fraudulently collected the money and misused it. Assam police will look into these cases till the CBI takes them over. The detailed investigation will be done by the CBI...,” Sarma said
on Friday.

The cabinet decisions follow a series of alleged financial scams that have been unearthed this month.