Kolkata: Six persons were arrested by the cops of Park Street police station in connection with a financial fraud case on Wednesday night.
The accused persons were produced at the Alipore Court on Thursday and two of them were remanded to police custody for seven days. The other four arrested persons have been remanded to judicial custody.
According to sources, a woman identified as Mou Mondal, a resident of Sonarpur in South 24-Parganas, lodged a complaint at the Park Street police station alleging that the six persons had made a conspiracy to cheat people in the name of arranging loans. Pursuant to their conspiracy, the accused persons allegedly introduced themselves as employees of the Aditya Birla Finance Company and
convinced the complainant to pay an amount of Rs 18,300 for arranging a loan. For this purpose, the accused persons allegedly forged several documents related to loan approval. It is suspected that the accused persons have cheated several more people in the same manner earlier.
On Wednesday, they were detained and grilled. After failing to provide any satisfactory reply to the questions asked by the cops, all six of them were arrested.
Police have also seized 32 keypad mobile phones, an attendance register, multiple SIM cards and various script diaries from the accused persons. Further probe is on to find out how many people have been cheated by the accused persons.