Kolkata, June 21 -- Police have issued a Look Out Circular (LOC) against Sumit Roy, personal assistant to TMC's national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee after the Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court in Medinipur issued a non-bailable warrant against Roy.
Roy has been named as a prime accused in a cheating and forgery case linked to an alleged cash-for-jobs racket.
According to sources, the complainant alleged that Roy collected about Rs 3.5 lakh per candidate from several job aspirants on the promise of securing appointments in various state government departments and offices. He allegedly assured them of permanent employment.
The complaint stated that after receiving the money, Roy provided appointment letters that later turned out to be fake and subsequently ceased all communication with the aspirants. When the candidates attempted to join their purported posts, they discovered that the appointment letters were forged. Police have booked Roy under various provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including those related to cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property, forgery of valuable security and criminal conspiracy.
The FIR also names former TMC MLA from Midnapore, Sujoy Hazra, as a co-accused. Hazra is currently in judicial custody following his recent arrest in a separate extortion case. The job fraud case comes days after the probe into the alleged Salboni land-grabbing case was intensified. Roy is also the prime accused in a separate FIR registered at Salboni Police Station in connection with an alleged land-grabbing and extortion racket along National Highway 60. Hazra has also been named in that case.
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