The Government of Assam has done well by constituting a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to carry forward investigations into the massive cash-for-job scandal that took place in the Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) during the tenure of the previous Congress government headed by the late Tarun Gogoi. The SIT team would be headed by a senior IPS officer. It is important to note that the SIT was constituted after the Gauhati High Court expressed concern over the present pace of the investigation, which had started way back in 2016. It is also important to note that the Gauhati High Court has made certain very critical observations on the pace and kind of investigation that have been carried out so far to book the culprits and take the matter to its logical end. As has been reported, Chief Justice Sandeep Mehta observed during the hearing on Friday that “many things were left undecided in the case” and that it appeared that the investigating officer did not investigate certain facts and “was sitting over it”. This observation itself is enough for the common people to believe that the investigation has not been going on properly and that the officer(s) entrusted with the task of probing such a sensitive issue, involving not just a large number of people but also the entire process of selecting gazetted officers to run the state in the next three to four decades, have failed in their duty. While quite a number of people have been over the years, they include the then APSC chairman Rakesh Paul, two members of the APSC, several persons appointed to the Assam Civil Service, Assam Police Service, and other services, as well as a few middlemen who had allegedly acted as agents of top APSC functionaries. Scandals are not new to the APSC. There have been numerous allegations of irregular selections, bribery, and the sale of jobs in the APSC for the past three decades, if not more. The fact that a number of ineligible persons, including those lacking integrity, have been selected by the APSC in the past few decades is evident from the series of arrests of officers of the ACS, APS, and other services on charges of bribery, corruption, and other charges.