Demand to arrest fraud firm bosses

Siliguri, April 30: Agents of a Siliguri-based fraud deposit company that shut down last month have demanded the arrest of four directors, alleging that the administration was focusing more on pursuing the officials of Saradha Group. According to the agents of Annex Infrastructure India Limited, although the company’s managing director Prasenjit Majumdar — a resident of Ghugumali on the outskirts of Siliguri — was arrested from North 24-Parganas last week, four other directors, also from Siliguri and the adjoining areas, are still at large. “We know that Saradha Group is a bigger company but investors and agents of Annex have also lost lakhs. Prasenjit Majumdar, the managing director, was arrested with Rs 73 lakh. But the other four directors have not been arrested despite FIRs against them,” said agent Mrinal Chakraborty. Sources said there are more than 20,000 agents of the firm across the state and more than 5,000 are from Siliguri.