Bidhannagar City Police arrested six persons on charges of loan fraud on Sunday morning. They had opened an office a few months ago at Kaikhali and started cheating on people on the pretext of providing bank loans.
On Sunday, police arrested them on the basis of a specific complaint lodged by a woman who was recently cheated by them.
The accused were produced before Barasat District Court. The woman, complainant of the case, informed police that the men assured her to get a loan sanctioned from a bank. They even promised that they would influence the bank manager to allocate her the loan.
Assuring her the loan, they took Rs 10,000 from the woman, who is a resident of New Town. The accused persons also took a cancelled cheque from her before, promising that the amount she needed would be deposited to her account. On checking her bank account, the woman could not find any amount that deposited from the bank.
"The woman was looking forward to get a loan of Rs 1 lakh. The cheaters assured that her loan would get sanctioned soon. They also took Rs 10,000 as a fee for the assigned work," said a police source.
The cops from New Town police station raided their office and the culprits were booked from the spot. The kingpin of the racket was identified as Debabrata Das. He generally planned the things before befooling anybody, the investigators learnt.
However, the investigators believe that this is actually a small portion of the racket and the main racket is still operating somewhere else.