Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI: The CBI filed the second supplementary charge sheet against the mastermind behind M/s. DB Stock Consultancy Scam, Deepankar Barman, before the Special CBI Court, Guwahati today.
The charge sheet has been filed within 90 days of the arrest of the accused, who is currently lodged in judicial custody in this case.
The CBI registered the instant case on October 14, 2024, at the request of the Government of Assam, taking over the investigation of the case originally registered by the Paltan Bazar Police Station, Guwahati, on August 21, 2024, against D.B. Stock Consultancy, owned by Deepankar Barman, along with a key accused, Monalisa Das, and 7-8 employees of the organisation.
It was alleged that the accused persons had taken money from several clients by convincing them of guaranteed returns and gave Rs. 100 stamp paper in return as proof, but since June 2024, they found the payments were irregular, and many clients did not receive the payments. The complainant further alleged that he invested Rs. 1 crore, and along with several thousand clients, invested thousands of crores in the organisation, but the alleged accused person fled away along with money invested by the clients.
The CBI investigation has revealed that M/s. DB Stock Consultancy, proprietorship of Deepankar Barman, who was the mastermind of the case, in criminal conspiracy with co-accused persons including Monalisha Das, Chabin Barman, Deepali Talukdar, CA Mukesh Agrawal, and others, floated a Ponzi scheme and had been soliciting deposits from the public on the promise of higher fixed returns on their deposits. The proprietorship and its key managerial persons had been collecting deposits in the name of five unregulated deposit schemes promising fixed higher returns. Deposits of more than Rs 400 crore had been taken by the said proprietorship of Deepankar Barman.
Charge sheets against four accused—Monalisha Das, Chabin Barman, Deepali Talukdar, and Mukesh Agrawal—have already been filed, and they are facing trial. The present supplementary charge sheet has been filed against the mastermind of the scam, Deepankar Barman.
Notably, the CBI had re-registered 41 cases given to the CBI by the State of Assam, incorporating them into 35 FIRs against the different sets of accused persons. To date, charge sheets have been filed by CBI in 20 of these cases, including those in cases of Ranjit Kakoty (TradingFX), Bishal Phukan, Sumi Bora (Percelia Consultancy), Deepankar Barman (DB Stock), Gopal Paul (AJRS Marketing), and others.
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