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Four in cop custody over financial fraud

AGARTALA: Chief judicial magistrate of Khowai on Saturday remanded four persons in three-day in police custody, who were arrested in Kolkata in connection with financial fraud.

The four, identified as Samir Mukherjee (59), Avnish Singh (45), Hitesh Shaw (45), and Hritabrata Biswas (31), as residents of West Bengal , were brought from Kolkata on Friday on transit remand.

Claimed to be from a Mumbai-based company, they had cheated customers in the name of reviving LIC policies and installation of mobile towers.

Fifteen such cases of financial frauds are pending against them in several police stations, including Alipore, Bidhannagar, and Howrah of West Bengal, and Pragati Maidan of New Delhi, police said. They allegedly looted a huge amount of money from the people of Assam , Tripura , West Bengal, and Delhi, misusing the name of Deal Money Securities Private Limited.

According to a report, Ranjit Namodas, a resident of Khowai, had been cheated about Rs 28 lakh by the group and later he lodged complaints with police on March 21 this year.

The fraudsters made calls to Ranjit initially for revival of his lapsed LIC policy, and accordingly he deposited money and they offered to instal a mobile tower in his building against a sum of money.

During investigation, police came across similar incidents in Tripura. Early last week, with the initiative of Cyber Crime branch of Tripura police, Deal Money Securities Pvt Ltd had to return Rs 40 lakh to 15 people of Tripura.

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