Cheating and Extortion are Hallmarks of Bengal's ruling party

Slur on Trinamul leader

OUR CORRESPONDENT11.11.11

Durgapur, Nov. 10: A Trinamul leader in Burdwan and his son have been accused of cheating several traders of about Rs 3 crore. About 60 traders in Kanska barged into Trinamul leader Alok Chatterjee’s medicine shop today and roughed him up when they found that his son Smaranjit had disappeared. An FIR has been lodged but there have been no arrests. The duo had collected about Rs 3 crore from traders promising an annual returns of 15 per cent, a police officer said. “Those who invested money with them got their interest till April. But the payments stopped from May.” “Whenever we went to the medicine shop to enquire about the money, Smaranjit threatened us,” said Satya Prasad Keshari, a restaurant owner. Chatterjee, however, said he knew nothing about the investments and his son’s whereabouts. “They have deposited the money with my son. He left home today and I don’t know where he has gone,” he said. State law minister Malay Ghatak has been informed about the matter, a trader said