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Kolkata, Oct 26 (IANS) A district court in Asansol’s Industrial Township on Sunday sent Tahseen Ahmed, son of Trinamool Congress minority wing co-president Shakeel Ahmed alias Master Shakeel, to 10-day police custody in West Bengal’s West Burdwan district. He was arrested on Saturday for his alleged involvement in the Rs 350 crore chit fund scam.
Tehseen Ahmed was presented in the district court on Sunday afternoon. While government prosecutors sought police custody for him, the defense lawyer filed a bail plea on behalf of his client.
However, the district court judge rejected his bail plea and sent him to ten days police custody.
He was arrested late Saturday evening from a Jharkhand-bound bus run by an interstate bus service operator near Chandrachud intersection on National Highway 19. He had planned to escape to Jharkhand. Gold worth Rs 31 lakh was seized from his possession.
The main allegation against Tahseen Ahmed is that he collected deposits of around Rs 350 crore from around 3,000 individuals in Asansol through an unlicensed corporate entity operating out of the city.
They promised 14 percent monthly returns i.e. Rs 2.8 lakh on an investment of Rs 1 lakh in 20 months. However, he absconded on October 15, which was the due date for payment of returns to depositors.
Instead, they released a video message on their social media pages expressing their inability to pay assured returns to depositors by the promised deadline of October 20.
The matter was first made public on Thursday by Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari through a social media post, where he also shared Tehseen Ahmed’s video message.
In his post, the Leader of Opposition demanded the immediate arrest of Tehseen Ahmed as well as a probe by central agencies like the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) into the matter. He also demanded full payment of deposits collected by the said entity to the depositors.
–IANS
Source/PGH