Bank manager among 6 arrested by Bureau of Investigation of Economic Offences

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: The Bureau of Investigation of Economic Offences (BIEO) arrested 6 persons from various locations in connection with three separate cases.

Four employees of the Bank of India (BOI) - branch manager of BOI's Digboi branch Dona Das, Riya Deb, Arjun Pandey and Abhinandan Gogoi - have been arrested in connection with the case (No 03/2020) of fraudulent withdrawal of around Rs 3.10 crore from the bank. One Samarjit Mazumdar, a casual employee of the bank, had been arrested by the BIEO earlier.

In the second case, one Rupam Das of Bamunimaidam here has been arrested on the charge of cheating the GS Road branch of the Oriental Bank of Commerce. Das is accused of availing a cash credit loan of Rs 30 lakh from the bank by submitting fake land-sale papers as mortgage document.

In the third case, one Bakkar Ali alias Abu Bakkar Siddique of Kholishamari village in the Goalpara district has been arrested for illegally storing and vending about 2,000 litres of subsidized kerosene oil.

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