India, Nov. 12 -- The Arunachal Pradesh government has suspended four senior officers and recommended disciplinary action against East Kameng deputy commissioner and IAS officer Himanshu Nigam over irregularities in land compensation payments for the Lada-Sarli stretch of the Arunachal Frontier Highway, police said on Wednesday.

The move follows the submission of an interim report by a Fact-Finding Committee (FFC), constituted on August 13 under the chairmanship of the transport commissioner, after a spate of complaints from landowners and social activists alleging fraudulent assessments and exclusion of genuine beneficiaries.

According to the department of land management, the FFC's interim findings-submitted to the state government on...