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Jayanta Sarkar, 48, a director of Hello India micro-finance company, was strangled early on Monday. His wife Papiya, a schoolteacher, found him seated on a sofa with his legs tied. The strangulation marks on his throat are so deep that police suspect an iron wire was used.
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She admitted that her husband was under pressure from depositors after the Saradha collapse. &amp;quot;My husband had paid off most investors. The firm has a garments factory in Dogachia (North 24-Parganas) and an office in Kolkata&#039;s Manicktala. He had planned to sell them to pay off the few investors whose debts he was yet to be cleared,&amp;quot; Papiya said.
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-The Times of India
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<em>CHINSURAH/SODEPUR: </em>The body count in the aftermath of the Saradha collapse keeps going up. A director of a micro-finance company was murdered at his home in Hooghly's Chinsurah on Monday even as the father of a chit fund agent hanged himself after being beaten and humiliated by cheated depositors in Sodepur on the northern outskirts of Kolkata.
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This is the eighth suicide since the Saradha Group meltdown ruined lakhs of families and triggered the state-wide collapse of Ponzi firms. With neighbours turning on neighbours, Monday's murder is a grim portent of darker days to come.
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Jayanta Sarkar, 48, a director of Hello India micro-finance company, was strangled early on Monday. His wife Papiya, a schoolteacher, found him seated on a sofa with his legs tied. The strangulation marks on his throat are so deep that police suspect an iron wire was used.
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Papiya told police that three persons - Abhijit Saha and Abdulla Rashid from Cooch Behar and Biplab Biswas from Haringhata, Nadia - visited their house at 2am on Monday. At least one of them, Biplab, worked in Jayanta's company, she said. She served them tea and went upstairs. After a while, the trio told her that they were leaving as Jayanta had fallen asleep. &quot;I also went to sleep. I was shocked to see him dead this morning with wounds around his neck,&quot; Papiya said.
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She admitted that her husband was under pressure from depositors after the Saradha collapse. &quot;My husband had paid off most investors. The firm has a garments factory in Dogachia (North 24-Parganas) and an office in Kolkata's Manicktala. He had planned to sell them to pay off the few investors whose debts he was yet to be cleared,&quot; Papiya said.
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Hooghly SP Tanmay Raychaudhury said they have registered a murder case. Papiya has requested a magisterial inquest and it was granted, he added.
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In Sodepur, humiliation at the hands of neighbours drove a 64-year-old retired central government employee to suicide on Sunday. Some 15 depositors had come looking for Jagadish Chandra Roy's son Bidhan, who was an agent with the now closed Annex Infrastructure India Ltd. Bidhan is missing for a fortnight or so. Egged on by some women, they dragged Jagadish out on to the streets, tied him to a lamp-post, blackened his face with shoe polish and beat him up. The women in the group took turns hitting him with slippers. When Jagadish's youngest son Suren came to rescue him, he, too, was tied up and thrashed.
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The humiliation was too much for Jagadish, who was known in the locality as a soft-spoken, friendly person. What rankled him most was that the attackers were neighbours, who would wish him every morning till Annex closed down. After the assault, Jagadish locked himself inside his room. &quot;I called him for dinner but he said he was feeling unwell and asked me not to disturb him. We never thought he would kill himself,&quot; said Soma, Jagadish's youngest daughter-in-law.
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Bidhan worked with the Siliguri-based Annex for about six years and had reportedly run up a liability of Rs 1 crore when the firm went bust two months ago. The depositors started harassing the family and things got sop bad that Jagadish could not step out of his house for the past fortnight or so, fearing an attack. Suren said Bidhan had deposited all the deposits in Annex's Sodepur office. &quot;What can we do if the owner Prasenjit Majumdar goes into hiding after closing the firm suddenly,&quot; asked Suren.
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Police say Majumdar, the CMD of Annex, went into hiding in March 2013 when Rs 3.5 crore was left to be paid to depositors. The firm has branches in Assam, Bihar and Tripura as well. Khardah police arrested Majumdar on April 24. Bidhan had surrendered to police in March-end and spent two weeks in jail custody. After getting bail, he went missing, leaving his elderly father to face the wrath of depositors.
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&quot;We saw Jagadish Kaku trying to pacify the crowd but they started beating him up. Three women of our locality, who led the attack, hit him and his son with sandals repeatedly. The inhuman beating continued for over 15 minutes. When we tried to rescue the, we were threatened, too,&quot; said neighbour Sabita Kar.
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The family filed a complaint against three women. On Monday, police picked up three suspects for leading the attack, said Barrackpore additional DC Biswajit Ghosh. 
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Trail of death in chit fund collapse -Falguni Banerjee & Sanjib Chakraborty

-The Times of India CHINSURAH/SODEPUR: The body count in the aftermath of the Saradha collapse keeps going up. A director of a micro-finance company was murdered at his home in Hooghly's Chinsurah on Monday even as the father of a chit fund agent hanged himself after being beaten and humiliated by cheated depositors in Sodepur on the northern outskirts of Kolkata. This is the eighth suicide since the Saradha Group meltdown ruined lakhs of families and triggered the state-wide collapse of Ponzi firms. With neighbours turning on neighbours, Monday's murder is a grim portent of darker days to come. Jayanta Sarkar, 48, a director of Hello India micro-finance company, was strangled early on Monday. His wife Papiya, a schoolteacher, found him seated on a sofa with his legs tied. The strangulation marks on his throat are so deep that police suspect an iron wire was used. Papiya told police that three persons - Abhijit Saha and Abdulla Rashid from Cooch Behar and Biplab Biswas from Haringhata, Nadia - visited their house at 2am on Monday. At least one of them, Biplab, worked in Jayanta's company, she said. She served them tea and went upstairs. After a while, the trio told her that they were leaving as Jayanta had fallen asleep. "I also went to sleep. I was shocked to see him dead this morning with wounds around his neck," Papiya said. She admitted that her husband was under pressure from depositors after the Saradha collapse. "My husband had paid off most investors. The firm has a garments factory in Dogachia (North 24-Parganas) and an office in Kolkata's Manicktala. He had planned to sell them to pay off the few investors whose debts he was yet to be cleared," Papiya said. Hooghly SP Tanmay Raychaudhury said they have registered a murder case. Papiya has requested a magisterial inquest and it was granted, he added. In Sodepur, humiliation at the hands of neighbours drove a 64-year-old retired central government employee to suicide on Sunday. Some 15 depositors had come looking for Jagadish Chandra Roy's son Bidhan, who was an agent with the now closed Annex Infrastructure India Ltd. Bidhan is missing for a fortnight or so. Egged on by some women, they dragged Jagadish out on to the streets, tied him to a lamp-post, blackened his face with shoe polish and beat him up. The women in the group took turns hitting him with slippers. When Jagadish's youngest son Suren came to rescue him, he, too, was tied up and thrashed. The humiliation was too much for Jagadish, who was known in the locality as a soft-spoken, friendly person. What rankled him most was that the attackers were neighbours, who would wish him every morning till Annex closed down. After the assault, Jagadish locked himself inside his room. "I called him for dinner but he said he was feeling unwell and asked me not to disturb him. We never thought he would kill himself," said Soma, Jagadish's youngest daughter-in-law. Bidhan worked with the Siliguri-based Annex for about six years and had reportedly run up a liability of Rs 1 crore when the firm went bust two months ago. The depositors started harassing the family and things got sop bad that Jagadish could not step out of his house for the past fortnight or so, fearing an attack. Suren said Bidhan had deposited all the deposits in Annex's Sodepur office. "What can we do if the owner Prasenjit Majumdar goes into hiding after closing the firm suddenly," asked Suren. Police say Majumdar, the CMD of Annex, went into hiding in March 2013 when Rs 3.5 crore was left to be paid to depositors. The firm has branches in Assam, Bihar and Tripura as well. Khardah police arrested Majumdar on April 24. Bidhan had surrendered to police in March-end and spent two weeks in jail custody. After getting bail, he went missing, leaving his elderly father to face the wrath of depositors. "We saw Jagadish Kaku trying to pacify the crowd but they started beating him up. Three women of our locality, who led the attack, hit him and his son with sandals repeatedly. The inhuman beating continued for over 15 minutes. When we tried to rescue the, we were threatened, too," said neighbour Sabita Kar. The family filed a complaint against three women. On Monday, police picked up three suspects for leading the attack, said Barrackpore additional DC Biswajit Ghosh.