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Kolkata, October 11 (IANS) Police have arrested a former National Democratic Alliance leader from Bihar for running a fraud ring worth crores of rupees in Bengal. A police officer gave this information on Saturday.
The intelligence unit of Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate armed the accountant, identified as Rajeev Ranjan Kumar of Bihar.
According to the Bidhannagar police, Rajeev Ranjan, who unsuccessfully contested the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections from Sasaram constituency as a Bharatiya Sablog Party candidate, was arrested in connection with two separate fraud cases registered at the Salt Lake East police station here in September.
“Officials arrested him after a raid in Bihar earlier this week. There are two cases of fraud against him. Investigation has started,” said a senior officer of the Bidhannagar police commissionerate.
For the last few months, he was living in a house in the Salt Lake area of Kolkata. He had set up a base there and ran a business that allegedly defrauded people and embezzled crores of rupees.
Police are investigating two cases registered against him. On September 7, news came that Rs 4.5 crore had been embezzled from Salt Lake resident and former Calcutta High Court judge Inderjit Chatterjee. Rajeev has been identified as an accused in this case.
On September 14, a second case was filed by a resident of AJ Block, alleging that Rajiv had forged documents and records to fraudulently sell a house worth Rs 1 crore in the CD Block in Salt Lake, Kolkata.
According to police sources, Rajiv had committed these two big frauds in Vidhannagar East police station area and sensing trouble, had fled to Bihar. After receiving this information, the police formed a team to investigate and arrest the former NDA leader of Bihar.
“Bidhannagar police officials arrested him after raiding his Bihar hideout earlier this week. Two cases of fraud are registered against him and investigation has been initiated,” said a senior official of the Bidhannagar police commissionerate.
–IANS
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