SHILLONG: The CBI Shillong on Wednesday arrested Raj Narayan Rai from Madhubani, Bihar, for his alleged involvement in a forgery case.
The accused was produced before Chief Judicial Magistrate Court Shillong on Wednesday and the court remanded him to CBI custody for eight days.
The accused was absconding for a long time in a CBI case relating to withdrawal of Rs 60.86 lakh from the current account of BSNL Shillong in January and February 2012 by using forged cheques with fake signatures on behalf of the accounts officer (cash) at BSNL. The amount was transferred to nine different nationalised bank accounts in West Bengal, New Delhi and Andhra Pradesh.
All the nine bank accounts were opened using fake documents.
Earlier, the CBI Shillong had filed a charge sheet against one accused of Samastipur, Bihar, Sanjeev Kumar Rai.
Later, another accused Bidyut Sarkar of Kolkata was also arrested by CBI.
CBI is on the hunt to arrest other four to five gang members of the racket as the names used in banks are pseudonyms for which they cannot be traced.
CBI considers the arrest of Raj Narayan Rai of Bihar as a big success and it is expected that CBI will be able to extract good lead about the other accused involved in the racket during his interrogation.
