An Assam police team is leaving West Bengal to seek the remand of Sudipta Sen a day after the Saradha Group chief was brought to Kolkata.
According to sources, the team would interrogate Sen in connection with the chit-fund scam. He said three staff-members of Saradha Group were arrested in 2012 in connection with a cheating case in Jorhat.
So far, 222 cases have been registered against 128 chit fund companies in the State. A Special Investigation Team probing the cases has so far filed charge sheets against 42 persons and 15 companies in 17 cases. So far, 303 persons have been arrested. Nearly Rs. 94 lakh in cash has been seized and amount of Rs. 24 crore frozen. Police have seized 106 bank accounts have been frozen while steps are being taken for the attachment of a number of landed properties including 99 bighas of land and buildings which have been identified.
The companies now under scanner are Saradha Group, Rose Valley, Unipay 2U, Jeevan Suraksha, Prayag, Abyss Assam Group Co, Basil International Ltd., Alliance Vision Marketing Pvt. Ltd and Daffodils Group of Companies.
The Assam government has made a slew of announcement on Tuesday just before the announcement of the poll schedule.These include hike in honorariums for angwanbadi workers, Aasha workers, home guards and village defence parties across the state. These hikes would be effective from April 1, 2014.Moreover, the government has announced 10,000 to each of the self help groups to woo the voters before the Lok Sabha polls.
Three absconding KMSS leaders have moved the court seeking anticipatory bail in connection with the recent self immolation case in Dispur.KMSS leaders namely Kamal Kumar Medhi, Dharya Konwar and Amar Bezbaruah have field petition for anticipatory bail on Tuesday.The court has accepted the bail plea to be heard on Wednesday.Policemen are fanning in the nook and corner of Guwahati in search of the trio two days after Akhil Gogoi along with five of his associates were arrested in this connection.
Three persons were killed and four others have been injured at a tragic road mishap in Karbi Anglong district on Tuesday.The incident took place at Hamren at around 11 in the morning when a truck carrying bamboo met with the mishap. Three persons died on the spot while four injured persons are battling with life in hospital.
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh along with Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi will visit Assam in April.According to AICC sources, the trio is expected to address a number of poll rallies across the state in the first week of April.Detail schedule is not available yet.
Congress screening panel met on Tuesday in New Delhi a day before the AICC poll panel meet.Chaired by Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde, the panel set up to deal with Assam affairs completed screening of poll candidates for most of the Lok Sabha seats.The screening panel is believed to have referred the list of the candidates to the AICC poll panel which is set to approve it on Wednesday.AICC top sources told Assam Times that the list would be announced by the next week.
Jintul Talukdar from BhawanipurChief Minister Tarun Gogoi claimed on Tuesday that Congress would be able to put up a commendable performance in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.Talking to reporters at Bhawanipur, Gogoi said that media can’t stop Congress poll prospect in Assam. “In the past, a section of news papers and TV channels predicted my defeat. But that did not happen. This time also we will win with flying colours,” said the chief minister.
AIUDF made it plain on Tuesday that the party will not forge any alliance with Congress for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.Addressing a press conference in Guwahati, party president Badaruddin Ajmal said that the party will consider poll pact with AGP if the regional party avoids understanding with BJP. He said that the party will field strong candidate in Koliabor to beat Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi’s son Gaurav Gogoi which is set to be fielded by the ruling party. Ajmal further blamed it all Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi who is holding the home portfolio, for the volatile law and order front situation and said that Gogoi should leave the portfolio.
Asom Gana Parishad is holding its steering committee meeting on Tuesday to discuss the list of candidate for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.Chaired by president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, the meeting at the official residence of Phani Bhushan Chaudury, ia expected to take a final decision on its possible poll alliance with BJP.
Voice of protest against Akhil Gogoi’s arrest seems to have been spreading nook and corner of the state.A huge gathering in Guwahati on Tuesday demanded immediate release of the KMSS president who is under police remand in connection with the recent self immolation of a KMSS activist in Dispur.Noted intellectual Dr Hiren Gogoi slammed the government saying that he was dead opposed to self immolation but in the same breath he said that the government is trying to gag the voice of protest against rampant corruption in public life.
A police man has been suspended in Guwahati for inhuman torture he inflicted on a city bus driver who refused to pay hi m money.The incident took place in Jalukbari area in the city where the policemen asked him to pay fine for halting at unauthorized place. When the driver and his assistance pleaded their inability, he mercilessly beat up the driver damaging his one of the eyes.Then senior police officials rushed to the spot and arrested the constable.
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Rose Valley will be next.
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