{"id":13797,"date":"2025-09-14T06:06:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T06:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/?p=13797"},"modified":"2025-09-14T06:07:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T06:07:58","slug":"female-bank-staff-arrested-in-16-crore-agartala-checkbook-clone-scam-sit-formed-for-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/14\/female-bank-staff-arrested-in-16-crore-agartala-checkbook-clone-scam-sit-formed-for-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Bank Staff Arrested in \u20b916 Crore Agartala Checkbook Clone Scam; SIT Formed for Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Agartala, September 14, 2025: A major breakthrough has been made in the sensational \u20b916 crore checkbook clone scam involving the Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC). Police on Saturday arrested a female bank employee identified as\u00a0<strong>Ramayani Srimoy<\/strong>, a cashier at the UCO Bank\u2019s Agartala branch. Originally from Nagaon, Assam, she was taken into custody after weeks of protests by opposition parties demanding swift action in the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following mounting pressure, the&nbsp;<strong>State Government has constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT)<\/strong>&nbsp;headed by&nbsp;<strong>Additional SP Dhruva Nath<\/strong>&nbsp;to investigate the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"480\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 848 \/ 480;\" width=\"848\" controls src=\"https:\/\/aguli.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Video-2025-09-14-at-10.46.09-AM.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Police officials confirmed that evidence recovered so far includes forged bank cards and other documents linked to the scam. \u201cThe investigation is ongoing. At present, we cannot confirm if other individuals are involved. Any further findings will be shared once verified,\u201d said officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The checkbook clone scam had sparked widespread outrage after funds amounting to nearly \u20b916 crore went missing from AMC accounts. Opposition parties staged multiple protests accusing the government of inaction, eventually leading to the SIT\u2019s formation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities said further arrests cannot be ruled out as the investigation progresses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agartala, September 14, 2025: A major breakthrough has been made in the sensational \u20b916 crore checkbook clone scam involving the Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC). Police on Saturday arrested a female bank employee identified as\u00a0Ramayani Srimoy, a cashier at the UCO Bank\u2019s Agartala branch. Originally from Nagaon, Assam, she was taken into custody after weeks of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":13799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2382,941],"ppma_author":[1174],"class_list":{"0":"post-13797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tripura","8":"tag-16-crore-scam","9":"tag-arrested"},"authors":[{"term_id":1174,"user_id":33,"is_guest":0,"slug":"kamaljamatia","display_name":"kamal jamatia","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/564a074770eb17d36f3af441d462b8a2a809599748f74220740b1d3b52879fcf?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Faguli.in%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F07%2FPHOTO-2023-09-14-08-30-32-3.jpg&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13800,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13797\/revisions\/13800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13797"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=13797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}