CBI arrests Proclaimed Offender, 5 in Uttarakhand chit fund scam

In West Bengal, the CBI has arrested a Proclaimed Offender, Sanjit Chakraborty from Kolkata. The accused is charge sheeted in two Tripura chit fund cases.  The accused Sanjit Chakraborty, CMD of  Cosmic Negociators Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata was at large since registration of FIR by Tripura Police in 2013. The CBI took over the cases in 2023. After investigation, chargesheet in the first case was filed against the accused Sanjit Chakraborty & others in 2015 for duping public money to the tune of Rs. 7.48 Crores approx. Chargesheet  in the second case was filed in 2024 against the accused Sanjit & others for duping public money to the tune of  Rs. 27.13 Lakhs approx. In both the  cases, he was shown as absconding accused in the charge-sheet.
The accused Sanjit Chakraborty was hiding and evading arrest since 2013. After sustained efforts, based on inputs collected during field verification/ technical & physical surveillance/CDR analysis/ OSINT, the accused  Sanjit Chakraborty was zeroed in Kolkata and was arrested by the CBI on Tuesday.  The arrested accused will be brought to Tripura for production before the Competent Court after securing transit warrant from the jurisdictional court at Kolkata.
In another case, the CBI also arrested Sushil Gokhroo and 04 other persons, namely, Rajendra Singh Bisht, Tarun Kumar Mourya, Gaurav Rohilla and  Mamta Bhandari, from different locations in the country, in LUCC Chit Fund Scam of Uttarakhand. It may be recalled that High Court of Uttrakhand, Nainital Bench had passed orders transferring all the FIRs pertaining to Messers Loni Urban Multi State Credit and Thrift Co-operative Society (LUCC) Chit Fund Scam to CBI in the Year 2025, based on which the CBI has registered a case on November 26, 2025 under various sections of IPC, BNS and Uttrakhand Protection of Interests of Depositors Act and Banning of Unregulated Deposits Schemes Act against various office bearers of LUCC and others. 
Investigation so far has brought forth an unprecedented scale of victimisation of public in the State of Uttrakhand in which a very large number of investors (more than 1 lakh) were lured to invest in various unregulated deposit schemes of LUCC. The total investment/ deposits made by these depositors is estimated to the tune of Rs.800 crores approx. Part repayments were made but the fraud amount is more than Rs.400 crores.
Investigation in this case is going on a day to day basis and special team has been constituted to track and trace the accused based on technical surveillance and source informations. The main accused in this case is Sameer Agrawal, who along with his wife Saniya Agrawal have absconded abroad and CBI has opened notices and circulars against them. 
During the probe, it was also revealed that several immovable properties were acquired by the accused persons from the proceeds of crime and details about these properties have been shared with the competent authority which is Secretary, Finance, Government of Uttrakhand with a request to freeze these properties and take necessary action to distribute them to the victims under the provisions of Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes (BUDS) Act 2019.

(Freelance Jounalist)