KAMALPUR, January 2, (TIWN): Amidst the havoc of Saradha in West Bengal, when the opposition in the State are demanding CBI probe here, than another huge gobbling of public money in the name of providing four times loan unearthed.

Early last year, an NGO Pilak Jyoti Social Organization initiated a scheme of providing four times loan than the deposited amount within one month of the deposit. Three organizers of this NGO namely Alak Deb, Pramode Das and Yogesh Shil of Kamalpur roamed through the state and convinced thousands of rural people to deposit in the scheme. They collected more than 70 lakh rupees from Dharmanagar, Kumarghat, Fatikroy, Khowai areas. One Mintu Malakar of Fatikroy deposited 25,000 rupees for one lakh loan. Accordingly, he was issued a cheque of 1, 00,000 rupees payable at UCO Bank, Kamalpur branch. When he went to collect the loan amount, the Bank authority informed that the account had not sufficient money. The Alak and his team gave him date after date. Then cheated Mintu bounced the cheque and decided to knock the bank against this cheating.

According to the family members of the accused trio, all went to Delhi early in December and had not returned yet. Now could the police be able to recover the money or not is the matter to be seen.

 Bounced cheque of  Rs 1 Lakh rupees. TIWN Pic