Tripura Chit Fund Scam: CBI Arrests Proclaimed Offender Tapan Pramanik After 14 Years on the Run

NADIA/AGARTALA, JAN 18: In a major breakthrough, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today arrested Tapan Pramanik, a key accused in the multi-crore Tripura Chit Fund scam who had been evading law enforcement since 2012.

Pramanik, a Director of M/s M.P.S Agro-Animal Projects Ltd., was apprehended in the Nadia district of West Bengal following a high-stakes operation involving physical surveillance and detailed CDR analysis.

Declared a Proclaimed Offender (PO) by a Tripura court in January 2023, he is accused of fraudulently collecting approximately ₹3 to ₹4 crore from the public under the guise of lucrative investment schemes and subsequently misappropriating the funds.

The case against Pramanik was originally registered by the CBI in October 2013 following notifications from the Tripura and Indian governments. Although a charge-sheet and supplementary charge-sheet were filed in 2015 and 2019 respectively, the accused remained untraceable for over a decade despite multiple arrest warrants.

Following his capture in West Bengal today, the CBI will produce him before a jurisdictional court in Nadia for a transit warrant to bring him before the Special Judge in Agartala, Tripura, to face trial.