State president of Lok Janshakti Party arrested for running forgery network
By Our Correspondent
Agartala, Updated: March 3, 2021, 06:48:44 AM
Agartala, March 3, 2021: In another success story of Tripura
police on Tuesday, a big racket of
forged documents was busted and arrested kingpin Rupam Kar, who is state
president of Lok Janshakti Party.
Arrested Rupam Kar involved in racket to acquire fake
Foreign liquor license, petrol pump allotment, job offer letters etc by
cheating public in return of huge amount of money.
Police sources said that Superintendent of Excise,
Sabyasachi Singh filed an FIR at West Agartala police station on December 18,
2020 last under section of 468 and 471 of IPC .
Later, the case has been handed over to the Crime Branch of
Tripura police and Crime Branch team led by Supervising Officer Dy.SP Ajay
Kumar Das swing into action and Tuesday
morning , the Crime Branch team conducted raid and search in connection with
West Agartala PS Case No. 212/2020 at
the house of kingpin Rupam Kar.
Police arrested accused - Rupam Kar(25) from his house behind Bordowali High School along with
forged public documents, rubber stamp of government officers, ONGC and Indian
Oil, computer, printer etc.
Crime Branch officer Dy. SP Ajay Kumar Das said that seized
and recovered items were used by arrested accused to create fake Foreign liquor
license, petrol pump allotment, job offer letters etc by cheating public in
return of huge amount of money.
Police added that Superintendent of Excise Sabyasachi Singh
noticed forgery network in December last and filed an FIR at West Agartala
police station against one Tapan Saha of North Badarghat, near Bapuji School,
Bordowali who submitted fake documents but during preliminary investigation it
was found that he was cheated by arrested accused person Rupam Kar.
Rupam Kar is being interrogated to find out whole racket and
names of other accused. He will be produced in court on Tuesday with an appeal for police remand for further
interrogation.
Police added that
Rupam Kar, who state president NDA ally Lok Janshakti Party was involved
in other forgery activities and by using his political nexus, often he had
cheated many common people by luring them to acquire foreign liquor license,
petrol pump allotment, jobs in ONGC.
The crime team has also recovered many fake official letter
pads of some authorities, which are being used to collect fake licenses.
It may be recalled here that on city police managed to return forged
admission fees from an admission agent of Patna city by recovering collect a
total amount of Rs. 18.33 lakh, which were collected from one Asit Podder,
posted as head clerk in a department at Civil Secretariat for MBBS admission of
her daughter in AIIMS (Patna).
(Tripurainfo)