Poor get poorer
As always, given the inequities built into the global economic system, the poorest people in the world have been the…
Two days after the dead bodies of a mother and daughter were found stuffed in a suitcase in river Hooghly, more shocking details continue to emerge making the gory murder murkier.
Investigators suspect that it could be the greed for money and not only the extramarital affair that may have driven bank manager Samaresh Sarkar to commit the crime.
The sleuths have found out a "money angle" to the murder after they stumbled upon the bank account details of Sucheta Chakroborty, Samaresh’s lover, where she had done several fixed deposits, but had surprisingly nominated her paramour’s mother, Palturani Sarkar, as her nominee without even knowing her, "It is strange that Sucheta’s fixed deposits has her killer’s mother as nominee though the duo didn’t know each other and perhaps had never met. Ideally, she should have made her daughter her nominee," said a police official involved in the investigation.
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The official further said, Samaresh had also taken a housing loan of Rs.26 lakh from his bank in 2014. Sucheta’s bank details have also revealed that she had mere Rs.4,200 left in her account and had withdrawn Rs.1000 from an ATM counter in Bidhannagar just before the day she was murdered. Samaresh had also withdrawn Rs.15,000 from his bank on the day he committed the crime.
Police officers probing the case have also found that Sucheta was estranged from her husband Shrutidhar Mukherjee and had no relation with him and even refused to accept the money orders sent by him over the past seven months. Her bank details has further revealed that she did the last transaction on 10 July though the footages of surveillance camera installed in the bank show that she visited the bank four times last month accompanied by Samaresh and had used her locker.
Meanwhile, the bank authorities today issued suspension order of Samaresh, following service rule. A copy of his suspension has also been sent to his Titagarh address. The police has also sealed the residential quarter used by the killer bank manager.
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