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.
Despite strict vigil, Naga miscreants continue to unleash terror in Moriani along the Assam-Nagaland interstate-border. Suspected NSCN-K militants kidnapped four workers from their workplace on Wednesday morning. The incident took place at Rankham where armed militants took away the workers at gunpoint. Search operation is in progress.
Tension is escalating in Chirang after two school goers were shot dead by police during a counter insurgency operation. The incident took place at Runikhata in the morning when police opened fire at a group of students on their way to the school during an operation. Two students namely Jiri Narzary and Pranjit Narzary died on the spot while three others sustained injury who were shifted to the Guwahati Medical College Hospital. Then the irate mob rushed to the Runikhata police station and set it on fire. Even the police vehicles were not spared.
Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) has expressed shock at the killing of Chhattisgarh based journalist Sai Reddy, who according to media report, was killed by Maoist activist on Friday last. Reddy (51), a native of Basaguda village in Naxalite-hit Bijapur district of south Chhattisgarh, used to write for Deshbandhu newspaper of the State. Media reports say that Reddy was attacked by a group of Maoists with sharp weapons in broad daylight on December 6. Reddy was returning from Basaguda weekly market on that day, when he was allegedly attacked by the Maoist activists and he later succumbed to his injuries while on the way to the Bijapur hospital. Reddy, who was an active, honest and dedicated...
This event is postponed. New date will be announced soon! NE Youth Euphoria 2013Rangapara, Soonitpur, AssamPhone: 09717309865Contact Email: apgrpa@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/551551488261099/> Click here to download application form < What is the Event? NE Youth Euphoria 2013 is a 2-days-residential-camp for students studying at Class XI to Graduation (final year, TDC). 300 students will take part in the event – 150 residential participants from other states/districts and 150 local (non-residential) students.Objective of the NE Youth Euphoria 2013:Opportunity for the students to meet-up students coming from different places of the...
NDFB's Ranjan Daimari faction struck a ceasefire pact with the Centre on Friday which is believed to be of great help to restore peace in BTAD. Union joint home secretary Sambhu Singh represented the Centre in the tripartite in Guwahati where NDFB chairman Ranjan Daimary was present. The Bodo militant agreed to deposit over 40 arms apart from a list of 379 militants who would be kept in 2 designated camps. Daimary told reporters after the talks thata their demands are purely political and hoped the the problem woule be sold politically. ADGP AK Route and home secretary...
Decks are clear for Upper House. The strength of the council of ministers is also set to be increased soon. An emergency cabinet meeting held at the residence of prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh appoved the proposal for the Upper House which has been pending for the last couple of months.
A brain storming meet of police heads from 14 districts chalked out a slew of strategies to counter the growing militant activities in these districts. Presiding over the meeting at Assam police Headquarters on Thursday, DGP JN Chaudhury asked the SPs and IGs and DIGs to sternly deal with the fanning militant forces in the state. The state of late, has witnessed an orgy of militanta activities in the form of murder, abduction and extortion forcing the centre to keep Dispur on alert.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday said the the government wont tolerate any crime against women. Talking to reporters in Guwahati on Wednesday, Gogoi said that a special task force would deal with the case. According to the chief minister, post mortem report suggests no rape. He hoped the truth would come to light soon.
Five days have passed since a woman was brutally attacked and dumped on the roadside in Lakhimpur who succumbed injuries at the GMCH. But police have yet to arrest the perpetrators which runs into a hail of protest accross the state. Thousands of people have been staging dharna in Lakhimpur demanding immediate arrest of the culprits. The protestors made it clear that they would remain calm only after the examplary punishment of the perpetrators. The incident took place in Boginadi when the mother of 8 year old child was brutally attacked after she got into a tempo on her way to take her child back from school...
The minor boy critically injured in the Bongaigaon blast died in Guwahati on Wednesday. The three year old boy died three days after he was rushed to the Guwahati Medical College Hospital. The minor boy was critically wounded in Bongaigaon on Sunday as he was on the way to attend the Raas festival in the evening along with his parents. Suspected NDFB-B exploded the powerful grenade in the town leaving 10 injured.
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Rose Valley will be next.
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