Police in Meghalaya are on the look-out for officials of a firm that swindled Rs 7.7 lakh from customers on the pretext of financial schemes and disappeared overnight.
One Banicia Lyngdoh, engaged by the Specular North East in their office at Jowai in Jaintia Hills district, has filed an Fir alleging that the firm, during November 2009 to January 2011, collected an amount of Rs 7,71,940 from customers.
“The amount was deposited into the bank account (SBI No. 30538674817) of its head office located at Guwahati. However, when the above deposit matured in the month of January 2011, the company failed to pay the matured amount to the depositors. Further, when the complainant enquired into the matter she found that the office of the company had already been closed at Guwahati,” a police official said on Friday.
Over a hundred people in Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya have been duped by the firm, which engaged five locals as employees in its office at Jowai.
“Some names are there with us and we are contacting Assam Police to find their whereabouts. The investigation is in its primitive stage,” the official said.
The company ostensibly had registered address at Senduri Ali, Jonali, Guwahati-24 and another office at Navin Nagar in Guwahati.