Kolkata: Fight over alleged defalcation in office

KOLKATA: The police rushed to MR Bangur Hospital, where they found out that Amit Ranjan Chatterjee, now dead, had been brought in by one Somnath Chakraborty.
Somnath told the hospital he had found Chatterjee lying injured in a lane.
“Somnath claimed that since Amit needed hospitalization, he took him to the hospital,” said joint CP (crime) Murlidhar Sharma.
The cops soon found out that Amit had been working at Maa Durga Finance Sanjog Pvt Ltd in Nehru Colony for the past nine months. He had come to Kolkata from Suri in Birbhum a couple of years ago and had been staying in Kudghat in south Kolkata. While Suman was the owner of the company, Somnath and Debasis, the other two arrested, were both employees, the cops’ investigation found.
“This Ma Durga Finance Sanjog Pvt Ltd is an unregistered finance company,” said joint CP Sharma.
“The company claims that it mainly gives loans to the poor and earns money as interest. The owner claimed that Amit had allegedly collected Rs 3 lakh to Rs 3.5 lakh from various persons in the name of this company, assuring them that he would arrange special loans for them. But he allegedly neither deposited any money at the office, nor did he return it to the people he took it from.”
The accused trio told the cops that they had a huge fight when they confronted Amit over his alleged defalcation at their office, during which, the three rained punches on him. They took him to hospital, but fled when the doctor declared him dead.