Central honour for 3 Kolkata cops

KOLKATA: Sub-Inspectors Kausikbrata Majumdar of the detective department’s homicide section, and

Suman Sadhukhan

and

Jitendra Prasad

of the anti-bank

fraud

section have received The Union Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Investigation for 2021.

“We are proud of you,” tweeted the Kolkata Police as they made the announcement.

Sadhukan had led the probe into a Rs 20-crore bank fraud that was detected in London ad traced to a Behala house, where Rs 7 crore was hidden in suitcases, cupboards and rice containers. Sadhukan and Prasad also probed the

ATM scam

, where

Romanian

nationals were involved.

Majumdar solved the 2019 murder of Garcha’s Urmila Jund (65) by arresting her widowed daughter-in-law, Dimple, granddaughter Kanika and Dimple’s lover, Saurav Puri.


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