Kolkata: Scam-ridden Saradha Group boss Sudipta Sen, arrested for being the alleged kingpin of the multi-billion rupee chit fund scam, was grilled by Assam Police in the cases of fraud and forgery lodged against him in the state, police sources in Kolkata said on Sunday. A team of police officers from Assam quizzed Sen on Saturday and Sunday about the four cases filed against his group companies in the northeastern state.
Two of the cases were registered in Dispur and one each in Geetanagar and Paltan Bazar. The group's companies went bust mid-April 2013 and downed shutters across West Bengal after they were unable to repay the lakhs of depositors - mainly poor people from villages and small towns - who had parked their hard-earned money with them lured by the promise of huge 25-30 per cent returns.
The collapse of the group has already resulted in four agents and depositors committing suicide in West Bengal, while its offices have been attacked and ransacked with the ruling Trinamool Congress in a spot over allegations of links of its leaders - including MPs and a minister - with the group.
Two first information reports (FIRs) have been filed against Trinamool MP Kunal Ghosh based on complaints by employees of media organisations run by the group for non-payment of salaries and for not depositing provident fund and tax deducted at source (TDS) with authorities. The media units were shut down by Sen in March and April 2013....
04:16 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Guwahati: Curfew in the Rangiya sub-division of Kamrup Rural district was relaxed on Friday as no incident of fresh violence was reported from any part of Assam. "Curfew has been relaxed in Rangiya from 9 am to 3 pm. The situation is under control," Assam Inspector General of Police (Law & Order) LR Bishnoi told PTI. He said police and security forces are maintaining a strict vigil in Rangiya, as...
11:55 AM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh describing the Assam riots as a 'blot on the nation', BJP on Saturday demanded a reply from him on the reported statement by Assam Chief Minister about delay in deploying the army to help curb violence. The party also accused the Congress of being responsible for the ethnic violence. "The Prime Minister has gone to Assam and described the Kokrajhar incidents as a...
08:02 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Guwahati: Desperate efforts are on to bring the situation in Assam under control. While around 1000 troops have been mobilised for peacekeeping in the state, the army has also been conducting flag marches in violence-hit areas. Meanwhile, the government is making a bid to bring warring factions of the Bodos and minority groups to the talking table. According to sources, two officials from the Union Home Ministry will be speaking...
06:07 PM, Jul 25, 2012
New Delhi: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday said that he was "very happy" that all the accused in the Guwahati molestation incident had been arrested. "We have dealt with the case very firmly," he added. Key accused in the case, Amar Jyoti Kalita, was arrested on Monday evening in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Kalita had reportedly surrendered at the Varanasi police station after reportedly having a word with the...
10:27 AM, Jul 24, 2012
The NCW blames the police for responding late while CM Tarun Gogoi slams mediapersons for not calling the police on time. ...
11:42 PM, Jul 17, 2012
The NCW has blamed the police for responding late while the Assam CM slammed mediapersons for not calling the police on time. ...
09:31 PM, Jul 17, 2012
Private news channel reporter Gaurav Jyoti Neog, blamed for allegedly instigating the mob to molest the teenage girl, resigned from his job on Sunday. ...
09:33 PM, Jul 16, 2012
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday met the victim, who was publicly molested and stripped by a mob of more than 30 people in Assam's capital Guwahati, and promised more security and monetary relief. However, even after one week of the incident the police have not been able to arrest all those involved in the heinous incident. National Commission for Women (NCW) blamed the police for reacting late...
08:22 PM, Jul 16, 2012
Guwahati: Almost one week has passed since a young girl was publicly molested and stripped by a mob of more than 30 people in Assam's capital Guwahati but the police have not been able to arrest all those involved in the heinous incident. The National Commission for Women (NCW) has blamed the police for reacting late in trying to save the girl even as its report, which was to be...
04:34 PM, Jul 16, 2012
New Delhi: A teenaged girl was pulled by her hair, lifted up, thrown down, beaten up, thrashed, molested, groped, slapped and stripped in full public view for 30 minutes on Monday night at a busy road near the Christian Basti area in Guwahati by a mob of around 20 men. The victim had gone to celebrate her friend's birthday at a bar nearby where a man passed an obscene remark...
10:19 AM, Jul 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Assam Police on Sunday arrested five men in connection with the assault on 33-year-old Congress MLA from Borkhola, Rumi Nath. Rumi and her second husband Zakir Hussain were beaten up by a hundred-strong mob outside a Karimganj hotel, where the MLA had gone to meet her father, on Friday night. Rumi is at the centre of a bigamy row after she left her first husband Rakesh Singh...
10:44 AM, Jul 01, 2012
Guwahati: Authorities have stepped up security in Assam ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's one-day visit to the state on Friday amid a 12-hour strike called by ULFA militants to protest the high-profile visit, officials said. A powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was meanwhile recovered from Lower Assam. According to officials, the police and security forces in Assam have drawn up an elaborate security plan in and around Guwahati ahead...
08:05 PM, Apr 19, 2012
