GUWAHATI:
Sleuths from the Bureau of Investigation Economic Offence (BIEO) arrested four directors of a non-banking financial company (NBFC) on August 2 for allegedly duping more than 100 people by promising them allocation of plots for developing real estate business.
While four persons – Bikash Borgohain, Rinkumoni Borah, Rajani Gogoi and Dibakar Bora – were arrested from various places of Sivasagar, the main accused, the managing director of the company, Jyoti Gogoi, and another director Chandan Bora, have been absconding till the filing of this report.
Speaking to the press, BIEO superintendent of police Rupkishore Handique said that all the arrested persons have been produced before the court, which remanded them to a 14-day judicial custody.
“A case vide BIEO PS case No 19/20 has been registered under section 120B/420/406 of IPC read with section 4/5/6 of PC and MCS(B) Act 1978 and read with section 5 of APID Act 2013 in this connection,” Handique said.
Notably, the BIEO had taken up the case following an FIR lodged by its Additional Superintendent of Police, Purabi Mazumdar, on November 3, 2020, alleging that the company, Response Real Estate and Construction Pvt Ltd, which was registered as NBFC had indulged in cheating by luring the gullible public under false promises of good profit in various fraudulent schemes by setting up different branches in various places of upper Assam districts.
“During the investigation, it was revealed that the directors of Response Real Estate and Construction Private Limited namely – Jyoti Gogoi, Bikash Borgohain, Rinkinmoni Bora, Rajani Gogoi, Dibakar Bora, and Chandan Bora – duped people by giving false promises of land and other fraudulent schemes from 2009 to 2014,” Handique said.
“The company had operated from various places of the state without legal authority from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). All of the directors had fled away with the collected public money of more than Rs 1.4 crore,” he said.
The registered office of the company is at Dolmukh Charali, Gayan Gaon Road in Sibsagar. The company submitted its last balance sheet to the registrar of incorporation in 2010.
The SP informed that many such NBFCs are operating in various parts of the state and that the matter is being investigated.