Saharsa police raid office of non-banking finance company, one held

B N Singh Papan

Saharsa : Police on January 28, 2017, conducted raid at the office of Samridh Jivan Multi-state Multi-purpose Co- operative Service Limited, a non-banking finance company, on Gokul Road, Gangjala, Saharsa, and arrested its Data Operator Navin Dandsena and also seized several incriminating documents. The other employees of the company including its branch manager managed to escape.

According to police, a resident of Sundervan Murli Basantpur Alok Srivastava, in a complaint lodged with Sadar police station, Saharsa, claimed that he had been depositing Rs 500 per month with the company for the last five years and the deposited amount had attained maturity period.

When he had opened the account with the company, Srivastava said, its office was located on Gandhi Path. When he reached there with maturity papers, the locals told him that the said office had shifted to Gokul Road, Gangjala, Saharsa, where the company staff only made him run for months in the name of giving him the maturity amount. On January 28, Srivastava felt that the company employees were planning to leave the place secretly.

Srivastava narrated everything to Sadar Police station, Saharsa, officials on January 28. Police immediately conducted raid at the office of the company. Srivastava informed police that around 70 persons of his village had deposited money with the company. Sadar police station SHO Bhai Bharat said police were probing into the allegations against the company.