GUWAHATI: Assam government's anti-graft cell on Tuesday arrested director of the government’s information and public relations wing, Ranjit Gogoi for his alleged involvement in an estimated Rs 32 crore scam relating to a high-level ‘Vision Assam Mission Assam (VAMA)’ media campaign carried out by the Congress government in 2015-16 fiscal.Gogoi, who was arrested from his office here in the evening and produced before the court, has been remanded to seven days police custody.The chief minister special vigilance cell, which probed the alleged scam, has also hinted at possible involvement of the chief minister’s office (CMO) when Tarun Gogoi was the chief minister, but underlined that “while the honourbale chief minister (Gogoi) may not be aware of procedural nuances and lapses that took place, senior officers of the CMO , IPRD (information and public relation department) and DIPR (directorate of information and public relation) did not take proper care while processing and implanting the project and incurred wasteful expenditure without achieving the desired result.”The vigilance cell has noted that “VAMA project was a high profile campaign conceived and monitored at the highest level of the government.”The vigilance cell in its report submitted to chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal stated that though “there was a financial sanction of Rs 31.933 crore, there was no compulsion on IPRD and DIPR to spend the entire amount by throwing all plans, strategies and professionalism into the air. They could achieve, by spending half the amount, the same results that they achieved by spending the entire amount. Therefore, there was unethical collusion between the firms (advertising firms) and DIPR while IPRD and CMO appeared to be unconcerned about the money wasted once funds were sanctioned.”According to the FIR lodged by the vigilance cell, the enquiry has revealed “some evidence of misappropriation of money in the form of false or fraudulent claims made by the media buying firms in respect of hoardings and of making payments on part of the director without proper physical verification.”The FIR has named three advertising firms, Brahmaputra Television Network, Delta Publicity and Pradip Advertisement, for their alleged involvement in the scam. The proprietors of Brahmaputra television Network, Rajiv Kr Bora and Anjan Bora had moved the Gauhati High Court seeking anticipatory bail but their bail pleas have been rejected.