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Education Department / RMSA Rs 5 Crore scam : Cashier Arnab Chakraborty finally in the trap of police: Special team of state police books RMSA scamster Arnab in Baguiati : More secrets to come out soon
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Education Department / RMSA Rs 5 Crore scam : Cashier  Arnab Chakraborty finally in the trap of police:  Special team of state police books RMSA scamster Arnab in Baguiati : More secrets to come out soon
PHOTO : Cashier Arnab Chakraborty in inset photo. TIWN

KOLKATA/ AGARTALA, September 13 (TIWN): Education Department’s scam fraudster Arnab Chakraborty is finally caught in the trap of police. A team of Tripura Police with the help of West Bengal Police finally succeeded to arrest him from Kolkata’s Shovabazar area on Saturday. Hopefully,the truths and other scams of Education Department will be revealed in details. As per plans, Police will bring Arnab to Agartala tomorrow morning i.e Sunday morning 7.15am flight from Kolkata after completing formalities. Police also may change plan and bring Arnab back on Monday as Police trying to catch few of his accomplices, but on 15th September Arnab Chakraborty will be produced before the court in Agartala. Arnab is still in the custody of 24 Pargana District Police. However, kingpins of this scam and Arnab’s godfathers are yet to be traced by Police in School Education Department.

A highly placed source today said that a two member delegation of the state police headed by Inspector Subrata Chakraborty and Sub-Inspector Rajib Malakar arrested the absconding Chakraborty at general area in Baguiati in the north-eastern flank of Kolkata city with the help of West Bengal Police.Later Kunjaban Police Station Sub Inspector Himadri Sarkar went with files for court proceedings at Barasat. He was produced at a local court in Barasat on Saturday itself wherefrom he was sent to police remand till September 15, the source informed.

He would be produced before a local court in Agartala on the day following which next course of interrogation would be finalized, he said.

Meanwhile, sources in the Department said that Deputy Director Ambalika Dutta, who is currently under suspension over the purchase scam of books authored by Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and former Chief Secretary Sanjay Kumar Panda, was closely involved in the concerned scam which surfaced with Arnab missing from the scene. Addl Director of the department D K Debbarma, Joint Director Manabendra Chakraborty and few other names have surfaced as investigation progressed, said the source. Howvever,involvement of other top officials, Education Dept bigheads like Secretary, Director and ruling party CPIM's Top leaders under scanner now. An ordinary cashier certainly cannot do this large size scam alone without blessings from godfathers. On multiple occasions, Director P.K.Charaborty ignored calls to take punitive steps against Arnab and those examples here :

1) On 21/07/2/14 Addl Director Dilip Kumar Debbarma issued a 'Show Cause' notice against Cashier Arnab Chakraborty. Copy of the Show Cause was also addressed to Director P K Chakraborty.  Without getting no reply D K Debbarma suggested to take action against Arnab. But Director suppressed the file without taking any care.

2) On 05/08/2014 Joint Director Manabendra Chakraborty issued a notice against Arnab suggesting the Director P K Chakraborty to initiate Departmental Procedures(DP) against the Cashier. Once again the Director suppressed the fact.

It is to be mentioned here that since a week police started observing the activities of Arnab. In the meantime two officers are sent to Kolkata to arrest him. However, police had recovered another 2 accounts of the cashier. In total 9 bank accounts are in limelight of the accused. Out of them 8 are blocked by police and 1 is now going to seized soon, as police had got all the information of Arnab by searching this single account. It is found that Arnab swapped  money around his accounts and spent  the amount in his personal activities.

On the other hand yesterday police had raided his house and sealed it. From his house one bike is recovered whose market price is not less than 3 lakhs. For now total amount recovered from his7 Bank accounts account isover 4 Crores.

Earlier  Joint Director of School Education and Additional State Mission Director, (ASMD) RMSA,Manabendra Chakraborty logged a FIR (File no-F.18(2)-DSE/CELL/2013) against the cashier Arnab Chakraborty . Cashier is accused of making forgery of the signs of ASMD to withdraw money.  He is also charged of issuing an appropriation letter demanding authority of receiving all the cheques and payments from RMSA. The authority of Tripura State Co-operative Bank suspected wrongdoings and accordingly they contacted the Director of RMSA. In order to show the proof the bank officials produced copy of bearer cheque in the name of Arnab Chakraborty bearing No.01756 against which Rs 11 lakhs 72 thousand was drawn by him on 3rd September.
On preliminary enquiry of office records, it appears that the signature of the ASMD and the Deputy Director (DDO) are forged one which was made by him intentionally for the purpose of
misappropriation of the Government money. The said document was used as genuine knowingly a forged document,” mentioned by the Joint Director in FIR. The said cheque and letter already forwarded to the police officials. Further documents shall also submit later. In FIR,  Joint Director clearly mentioned that “Being a clerk of our organization, Shri Arnab Chakraborty committed criminal breach of trust for misappropriation of Government fund for the purpose of wrongful gains”. It is also to be informed in this connection that, Arnab Chakraborty has earlier done many such scams, followed by arsons to wipe off evidences. In order to destroy all the witnesses of his scam he once may try to light up fire in the office  near Kokborok Directorate.

Earlier News on RMSA Scam 

www.tripurainfoway.com/news-details/TN/11107/absconding-cashier-arnab-s-house-sealed-rmsa-education-dept-scam-may-cross-10-crores-who-is-cashier-arnab-rsquo-s-godfather.html

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