Panipat: Trireme Infracon India Limited in Panipat is accused of defrauding 2000 weavers of Bengal working in textile city Panipat of an amount worth over Rs. 15 crores. The company lured the weavers with lucrative interest rates and made them invest, and then absconded by closing down their office all of sudden. The weavers protested at the District Secretariat and demanded action against those who managed to flee. The DSP HeadQuarter, Panipat has ordered an inquiry into the matter and action against the company duped nearly 2000 Bengali weavers by luring them with attractive profits on their investment as promised by them,but the company absconded with the deposited money of thousands of weavers of Bengal by luring them with good profits.
The weavers demonstrated at the District Secretariat on Monday and submitted a complaint to Deputy Commissioner Virendra Dahiya in the Samadhan Camp demanding action against the culprits. Meanwhile, DSP Head Quarter Satish Vats has directed the Incharge Special Detective Unit to investigate the matter and take action. RTI activist PP Kapoor said that most of the weavers who have come to Panipat from North Dinajpur district of West Bengal have been working as daily wage labourers for years. About four years ago, Kolkata’s Trireme Infracon India Limited Company and Mutual Benefit Nidhi Limited’s main agent Muhammad Jameel, manager Tahir, Karmatullah along with few others opened savings accounts of about two thousand Bengali labourers by giving personal guarantee of attractive interest and safe investment by opening savings accounts, FD, RD, Mutual Benefit accounts in which investments of about 15 crore rupees were made by the weavers.
It is alleged that when the time came to return the investors’ deposited money, the company manager and the agent started lingering over the matter, started threatening and finally absconded after closing all the three offices. The registered office of this Trireme Infracon India Limited is in Bhopal and the head office in Kolkata. For the past about four years, this company had set up its three offices at Sanjay Chowk, Tau Devi Lal Complex and Sundapur Jatal Road. The company was also running its own bank. Sector 29 Flora Chowk resident laborer Zaheer Alam and his wife Rukia Begum in their complaint said that on 28 February 2023, they had made an FD of Rs 4 lakh for a period of one year under the deception of agent Muhammad Jameel. Last year in August 2024, the term of this FD was completed but till date they had not been given the deposit amount.
Similarly, other depositors include Nafees deposited Rs 2.80 lakh, Alma Khatun wife of Noor Jamal deposited Rs 1.87 lakh, Saleha Khatun deposited Rs 80 thousand, Prasannajit Kirtania deposited Rs 1.44 lakh, Parveen wife of Taleem deposited Rs 1.40 lakh, Manjari daughter of Sarfauddin deposited Rs 82 thousand, Sanjari wife of Kalua deposited Rs 2 lakh, Akhtari Begum deposited Rs 1 lakh, Nargis deposited Rs 66 thousand and about 15 crore rupees were collected from two thousand weavers, submited complaint to police.
