KOLKATA: Three persons, including a bank employee and the branch manager of a public sector bank, were arrested in the past 72 hours for allegedly duping an association of engineers of Rs 35 crore in the past two years by using fake fixed deposits. Cops nabbed the bank employee Arun Pandey (48), a resident of Sinthi — the kingpin of the fraud — first.
Two others arrested in connection with the case were identified as Krishnendu Mullick (48) and branch manager Samrat Paul (50). Till now, a luxury car, Rs 1.9 crore cash and gold worth a few lakhs have been seized.
Janankur Saha of Institution of Engineers (India) had lodged a complaint with Muchipara PS on November 2. Joint CP (crime) Murlidhar Sharma said that the trio had been produced in the ACMM (II) court and remanded in police custody till November 20.