<p>An executive of the scam tainted Saradha Group, responsible for mobilising deposits from West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, was arrested Sunday for cheating and money laundering, police said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>He was remanded in police custody till June 15 by a South 24 Parganas court.<br />"Arindam Das, a general manager in the Saradha Group and wanted for a number of charges, including cheating and money laundering, was arrested Sunday from Bheri while trying to escape," said Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) Kankar Prasad Barui.<br />"Das has been remanded in police custody till June 15 by a court," added Barui.<br /><br />Earlier, police had issued a look-out notice against Das, who was supervising over 50 branch offices of the Saradha Group across South 24 Parganas and Burdwan districts.<br />Das is also facing charges of abetment of suicide following a police complaint filed by Bhola Pramanik, whose mother Urmila committed suicide by setting her ablaze in the district.<br /><br />Pramanik accused Das and Saradha boss Sudipta Sen, company director Debjani Mukherjee and senior official Arvind Chauhan of abetting the suicide of Urmila, who invested over Rs.50,000 in Saradha.<br /><br />Sen, Mukherjee and Chauhan have been arrested and are facing charges of cheating, conspiracy and abetment of suicide following a plethora of police complaints and first information reports filed against them across the state by investors, agents and employees of the group.<br /><br />They were arrested from Sonamarg in Kashmir April 23, days after the group collapsed, unable to repay lakhs of mostly poor depositors from rural areas.<br /></p>
<p>An executive of the scam tainted Saradha Group, responsible for mobilising deposits from West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, was arrested Sunday for cheating and money laundering, police said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>He was remanded in police custody till June 15 by a South 24 Parganas court.<br />"Arindam Das, a general manager in the Saradha Group and wanted for a number of charges, including cheating and money laundering, was arrested Sunday from Bheri while trying to escape," said Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) Kankar Prasad Barui.<br />"Das has been remanded in police custody till June 15 by a court," added Barui.<br /><br />Earlier, police had issued a look-out notice against Das, who was supervising over 50 branch offices of the Saradha Group across South 24 Parganas and Burdwan districts.<br />Das is also facing charges of abetment of suicide following a police complaint filed by Bhola Pramanik, whose mother Urmila committed suicide by setting her ablaze in the district.<br /><br />Pramanik accused Das and Saradha boss Sudipta Sen, company director Debjani Mukherjee and senior official Arvind Chauhan of abetting the suicide of Urmila, who invested over Rs.50,000 in Saradha.<br /><br />Sen, Mukherjee and Chauhan have been arrested and are facing charges of cheating, conspiracy and abetment of suicide following a plethora of police complaints and first information reports filed against them across the state by investors, agents and employees of the group.<br /><br />They were arrested from Sonamarg in Kashmir April 23, days after the group collapsed, unable to repay lakhs of mostly poor depositors from rural areas.<br /></p>