The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday arrested Tapan Pramanik, the kingpin of a Rs 4 crore investment fraud in Tripura, from Nadia district in West Bengal, officials confirmed.
Pramanik, who had been declared a Proclaimed Offender by a Special CBI Court in Tripura on January 16, 2023, was produced before a court in Nadia to seek transit remand for his transfer to Tripura. His arrest followed field verification, physical surveillance, and thorough call detail record (CDR) analysis by the CBI.
The case traces back to 2012, when Pramanik, Director of M.P.S. Agro-Animal Projects Ltd, allegedly collected Rs 3–4 crore from the public through agents, promising high returns, but misappropriated the funds. Despite a charge-sheet filed against him in 2015 and a supplementary one in 2019, Pramanik evaded arrest for years.
The Special Judge of Gomati District, Udaipur, Tripura, declared him a Proclaimed Offender in January 2023 after sustained efforts to trace him proved unsuccessful. The CBI confirmed that M.P.S. Agro-Animal Projects Limited, incorporated in December 2008 in Santipur, Nadia, West Bengal, specializes in agriculture and allied activities on a contract or fee basis.
Pramanik’s arrest marks a significant development in the longstanding Tripura chit fund case.
