Police have arrested five persons including some employees of postal services from the Indo-Assam border on Sunday night for their alleged involvement in siphoning off a huge amount of money from the account of various customers who deposited the amount with the postal department.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of senior police officers from Cooch Behar raided various places situated under the Kotwali police station near the Indo-Bangladesh border. Two days ago the district police had arrested the kingpin, Rahimul Khandakar from Dinhata. After interrogating him, police came to know about the whereabouts of other accused. Khandakar's driver has also been arrested by the police.
On specific information, the senior police officers carried out over night raids at various places in the district and arrested altogether five persons including some postal department employees who were also involved in a scam of a few crore rupees. Police have recovered some electronic gadgets including laptops and iphones.
Police have got some important documents relating to the case which was started by the police following a complaint lodged with the police by the customers who had been duped as money was withdrawn from their accounts in the post office.
According to a senior police officer in the district, several raids were conducted in the past two days. The scam came to light around one month ago and the district police administration swung into action.
A special investigation team was set up comprising some senior police officers in the district.
In the course of investigation, police suspect that a racket has been operating from the area involving some of the employees of the postal department who used to siphon off money from the accounts of the customers who used to deposit their money in post office.
As the employees have been involved in the scam, it had become little difficult for the customers to identify how the money was misappropriated.
According to the preliminary investigation, police also suspect that some documents might have been fudged to misappropriate funds from the customers' account. Police also believe that some more persons may be involved in it. A detailed probe has been initiated.