Saradha shadow: Police raid Uro Group's office

The raid follows a complaint from one of the depositors from Naihati in North 24 Parganas district

Widening its crackdown  against deposit-taking companies in the state, West Bengal Police today raided the office of yet another company, Uro Group.

Following a complaint from one of the depositors from Naihati in North 24 Parganas district, a team of police from there raided Uro Group’s office at Salt Lake City here.

Although the police did not share the details, they are understood to have pulled the plug on its operations. There have been allegations that the company did not pay some of the depositors even after maturity of the financial schemes. “As the company is not returning money even after maturity, it is asking the depositors to take one of its products like water purifier instead of cash,” said one Nadia-based agent of Uro Group.

The company is mainly operative in North 24 Parganas and Nadia districts of the state. The company, however, could not be contacted.

Incidentally, Uro Group was one of the companies which found a mention along with Saradha in Minister of State for Corporate Affairs Sachin Pilot's response to a query on the list of companies indulging in ponzi schemes in the Lok Sabha.

As the Trinamool Congress -led government has been under immense pressure because of party leaders’ alleged link to Saradha group that went bust, the state has asked district authorities to compile such complaints against all such ponzi schemes.

Earlier on Tuesday, Kolkata Police had raided the office of money-pooling company Prayag.