The complainant further alleged that he invested Rs. one crore and along with him several thousands of clients invested thousands of crores in the organization, but the alleged accused person fled away alongwith money invested by the clients.
FinTech BizNews Service
Mumbai, February 4, 2025: CBI has filed second Supplementary Chargesheet against mastermind behind M/s. DB Stock Consultancy Scam, Mr Deepankar Barman, before the Special CBI Court Guwahati. The chargesheet has been filed within 90 days of the arrest of the accused who is presently lodged in the judicial custody in this case.
CBI had registered the instant case on 14.10.2024 on request of Government of Assam, taking over investigation of the case originally registered by Police Station, Paltan Bazar, Guwahati, Assam on 21.08.2024 against D.B. Stock Consultancy, owned by Deepankar Barman alongwith a key accused Monalisa Das and 7-8 employees of the organization. It was alleged that the accused persons had taken money from several clients by convincing them guaranteed returns and gave Rs.100 stamp paper in return as a proof but since June 2024 they found the payments were irregular and many clients did not receive the payments. The complainant further alleged that he invested Rs. one crore and along with him several thousands of clients invested thousands of crores in the organization, but the alleged accused person fled away alongwith money invested by the clients.
CBI Investigation has revealed that M/s. DB Stock Consultancy, proprietorship of Deepankar Barman, who being mastermind of the case, in criminal conspiracy with co-accused persons including Monalisha Das, Chabin Barman, Deepali Talukdar, Mukesh Agrawal CA and others floated a Ponzi Scheme and had been soliciting deposits from the public on the promise of higher fixed returns on their deposits. The proprietorship and its key managerial persons had been collecting deposits in the name of five unregulated deposit schemes promising fixed higher returns. Deposits of more than Rs 400 crore had been taken by the said proprietorship of Deepankar Barman.
Chargesheets against four accused persons viz Monalisha Das, Chabin Barman, Deepali Talukdar and Mukesh Agrawal have already been filed and they are facing trial. Present supplementary chargesheet has been filed against mastermind of the scam Deepankar Barman under u/s 120B of IPC (corresponding section 61(2) of the BNS) r/w Sections 409 IPC (corresponding section 316(5) of BNS), Section 420 of IPC (corresponding section 318(4) of BNS), Section 477A IPC (corresponding section 344 of BNS) r/w Section 25 r/w Sections 21(1), 21(2), 21(3), 23 of BUDS Act, 2019 and substantive offences thereof.
Notably, CBI had re-registered 41 cases given to CBI by the State of Assam incorporating them into 35 FIRs, against the different sets of accused persons.Till date chargesheets have been filed by CBI in 20 of these cases including those in cases of Ranjit Kakoty (TradingFX), Bishal Phukan/ Sumi Bora (Percelia Consultancy), Deepankar Barman (DB Stock), Gopal Paul (AJRS Marketing) and others.
Further investigation is continuing.
