Chit fund director murdered in West Bengal
7 May 2013 6:13 PM IST
Apart from suicides which followed the chit fund scandal in West Bengal, a director of such a company was found murdered by suspected depositors at Chunchura in Hooghly district.
One of the directors of Hello India chit fund company, Jayanta Sarkar (48) was allegedly killed with a sharp weapon at his residence last night, the police said.
According to an FIR lodged at the Chunchura police station by Sarkar’s wife Papiya Sarkar today, three men, Abhijit Saha and Abdullah Rashid from Coochbehar and Biplab Biswas from Haringhata, killed her husband and draped the body in a cloth before departing at around 3am.
Hooghly SP Tanmoy Roychowdhury said, quoting the victim’s wife, that Sarkar had repayed most of the amount taken from the depositors.
He said that Sarkar, who also owned a factory at Howrah and a office in Kolkata, was trying to sell the two premises to raise funds to repay money to depositors.
The multi-crore chit fund scam, that had rocked the state, was detected following the closure of several media houses run by Saradha group, which has defaulted on repayment to lakhs of investors.
Youth held for raping four-year-old : Thane: A youth has been arrested on the charges of raping a four-year-old girl from a slum colony here, police said on Monday.
Rahul Chowdhary, a resident of Nalla Sopara area, and the victim were neighbours, they said.
On Saturday evening, when the girl was playing with her friends in front of her colony, the 20-year-old accused lured her under the pretext of giving a chocolate, Mukund Maharajan, Inspector of the Nalla Sopara Police Station, said. Chowdhary took her to an isolated place and raped her, he said.
The youth was arrested and booked under IPC Section 375 (rape) after the victim’s parents lodged a police complaint.
One of the directors of Hello India chit fund company, Jayanta Sarkar (48) was allegedly killed with a sharp weapon at his residence last night, the police said.
According to an FIR lodged at the Chunchura police station by Sarkar’s wife Papiya Sarkar today, three men, Abhijit Saha and Abdullah Rashid from Coochbehar and Biplab Biswas from Haringhata, killed her husband and draped the body in a cloth before departing at around 3am.
Hooghly SP Tanmoy Roychowdhury said, quoting the victim’s wife, that Sarkar had repayed most of the amount taken from the depositors.
He said that Sarkar, who also owned a factory at Howrah and a office in Kolkata, was trying to sell the two premises to raise funds to repay money to depositors.
The multi-crore chit fund scam, that had rocked the state, was detected following the closure of several media houses run by Saradha group, which has defaulted on repayment to lakhs of investors.
Youth held for raping four-year-old : Thane: A youth has been arrested on the charges of raping a four-year-old girl from a slum colony here, police said on Monday.
Rahul Chowdhary, a resident of Nalla Sopara area, and the victim were neighbours, they said.
On Saturday evening, when the girl was playing with her friends in front of her colony, the 20-year-old accused lured her under the pretext of giving a chocolate, Mukund Maharajan, Inspector of the Nalla Sopara Police Station, said. Chowdhary took her to an isolated place and raped her, he said.
The youth was arrested and booked under IPC Section 375 (rape) after the victim’s parents lodged a police complaint.
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