Agartala, Feb. 28 -- Agartala city police on Friday arrested five persons from different locations for their alleged involvement in a well organized gang for making fraudulent transactions to turn black money into white.
The arrested persons all from Agartala were identified as Piyush Debnath from Bodhjung Nagar, Narayan Debnath from the Airport area, Sagar Das from Aralia, Riptadeep Biswas from Nutan Palli, and Rohan Rudra Pal from Kunjaban.
SDPO Sadar D P Roy said the scam came into light after one of the members of the racket tried to deceive a travel agency of Agartala two days ago.
He said a fraudster visited the agency to purchase a ticket to Jammu and Kashmir. The agency owner, Soumitra Kumar Banik, issued a ticket for Rs 10,000, ...