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.
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Stung by incessant criticism Guwahati police on Thursday arrested a businessman charging him with holding syndicate.Popularly known as Naanka, the businessman was nabbed by police at 2-30 in the afternoon. His arrest comes a day after police raided a house in Beltola area for holding a coal syndicate in Nalbari.
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Stern action awaits fake financial institutions. Disclosing this in the Assam assembly on Thursday, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Nilomoni Sen Deka said that as of March 6, 2013, a total of 192 cases had been filed against 117 such companies. He said that police have also seized 106 bank accounts and Rs 93.81 lakh. He said that this was apart from seizure of property worth Rs 24.28 crore and six bighas of land have also been seized from fake financial companies.
Dispur is ready to appoint 12,000 more teachers in the state. Education minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma told reporters on Wednesday that a list of 12000 teachers of high schools in 22 districts would be available at 12 noon on Thursday. After one week, the appointment orders would be sent to the TET successful candidates to enable them to join in mid-April.
The recovery of a body creates no less tension in Dispur on Wednesday. Identified as Tinku Singh the Assam Sachivalay employee was missing from April 1. He went out with the of his friends on that day. The body was rescued from Last Gate which bears injury marks. His family members have called it a cold blooded murder.
Health minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma is hopeful that the bill to ban tobacco is on the cards. Dr Sarma informed the Assam assembly on Wednesday that the bill would be moved after cabinet approval.
A truck driver was killed and five others have been injured when two trucks collided heads on in the out skirt of Guwahati on Wednesday. The mishap took place at Sarutezpur at around 7.30 where a truck carrying sand collided its head on another truck. One person died on the spot while five others have been sent to the Guwahati Medical College Hospital in critical condition.
Two bikers were killed at a tragic mishap in the outskirt of Guwahati on Wednesday. The mishap took place near Boko in the morning when the bikers were crushed to death by a vehicle. Identified as Manoj Rabha and Nirav Rabha, the bikers died on the spot.
Kamrup district administration on Monday prohibited the sale of Assamese attires made of genuine Assam Silk and imported Benarasi silk in the same shop from Monday in the district.The order was notified by Deputy Commissioner S K Roy under Section 144 of the CrPC. The silk clothes would have to be sold in separate shops with signboards clearly stating which variety was being stocked.For protection of the local silk industry, the administration would also search for artificial silk clothes. The process for trade-marking the Sualkuchi silk would also be initiated.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday made it clear that his son Gaurav Gogoi was never involved in syndicate.Talking to reporter in the Assam assembly premise on Monday, Gogoi said that the allegations are baseless and that if the baseless charges are leveled again he would move the court.
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Rose Valley will be next.
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