Sharda group director gets police custody

BARUIPUR ( WB): Debjani Mukherjee, a director of Shardha group was today remanded to police custody for eight days.

The order was passed by the sub-divisional judicial magistrate of Baruipur, Debdeep Manna in connection with complaints of fraud by the ponzy scheme company by a large number of its agents and investors.

The company allegedly has a large number of plots of land at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas.

Debjani, a close associate of Shardha Group chairman Sudipta Sen, was yesterday remanded to judicial custody till May 31 by a Bidhanagar court in another case.

Sen and senior official of Shardha Group Arvind Singh Chauhan were also remanded to police custody for ten days by the same court on May 19.