Houses of 3 Tripura officials raided

Agartala, September 18, 2014: Cash and jewellery were seized during separate raids in the houses of three officials of the Tripura School Education department in connection with a multi-crore school scam, a police official said today.

Documents of several bank accounts, Rs 51,000 and jewellery worth Rs 3 lakh were seized from the houses of three persons yesterday in connection with the multi crore scam in the Rashtriya Madhyamik Siksha Abhijyan (RMSA) under School Education department, police said.

The cashier of RMSA Arnab Chakraborty, who had allegedly siphoned off Rs 3.5 crore by forging cheques, was earlier arrested from Kolkata.

Source: Assam Tribune