7 held for extorting money on pretext of providing loans in Bengal’s Nadia

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CID) arrested seven people, including two women, from West Bengal’s Kalyani, Nadia district for allegedly extorting money on the pretext of providing loans on a regular basis. The agency sleuths carried out a raid and seized documents, both fake and original, four laptops, 15 keypad phones, 11 smartphones, 63 ATM cards and rubber stamps.

The raids were conducted after police received multiple complaints. The accused published advertisements in newspapers for providing easy loans on a regular basis. The accused used the name of an organisation for almost a year, using the addresses of Durgapur and Galsi to extort money from people. The kingpin has been identified as Subrata Sarkar.

The accused used the names of Unnayan Samity, Gramin Samobay Udyog Yojona, Samabay Yojona and Janakalyan Samity and even prepared a website to convince the customers.

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The accused asked the customers to fill up a form and, after receiving data in their office, they would call them and extort money. They also collected details of Aadhaar cards through various charitable activites of the NGO, whose president was Subrata Sarkar, and opened digital Aadhaar-based bank accounts in their name using their finger prints. These accounts were used to collect the fraudulent amount.

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