The Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami who talks very often about zero tolerance in Corruption matters has finally recommended the much talked about LUCC multi crore cooperative scam to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
This notorious fraudster company which has duped thousands of lower middle class investors majority of them from towns and villages amassing Rs. 192 crores giving the investors false hope of multiplying their profits in short duration will now be probed by the CBI, the Indian premier investigating agency.
They haven’t even returned their principle amount back to them not to speak of amount with multiple interest the false assurance accorded by them to the innocent investors of the Himalayan state.
There had been several protest demonstrations at Dehradun and hundreds of protestors including women who have deposited/ invested eight to ten lakhs individually , i.e. the entire savings of their lives were literally crying and were in tears appealing to the Uttarakhand CM to give them justice by getting their money back. The full form of LUCC is Loni Urban Multi State Credit Thrift Cooperative Society and this is considered as the biggest scam of the state which has duped thousands of Uttarakhand people of around two hundred crores rupees. In Uttarakhand about thirteen FIRs been registered against this chit f company and about five people already arrested.
The LUCC had offices in all the towns of Uttarakhand in Garhwal and Kumaon division and had duped people of all sections of the society.
In addition to this, the Uttarakhand government has also recommended the already under ED investigation scam of Pakhro Tiger Safari construction to CBI in which several senior forest officers including the name of Dr. Harak Singh Rawat, the then cabinet minister is allegedly involved. There had been several raids by ED at various locations of Dr. Rawat including the Doon College owned by Dr. Rawat from where the huge inverters were confiscated.
Sources reveal that the Uttarakhand’s Police authorities have communicated with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Income Tax (IT) department in April for further action in connection with various cases lodged against operators of the cooperative society scam.
The Uttarakhand police of Pauri Garhwal police arrested five culprits associated with the cooperative society in October the previous year identified as Jagmohan Singh Bisht (51) of Rishikesh in Dehradun district; his wife, Urmila Bisht (45); Pragya Rawat (25) and Vineet Singh (37) of Pauri Garhwal; and Girish Chandra Bisht (59) of Dehradun district.
All five are part of the fake cooperative society. The Times of India report states that they were operating in Uttarakhand. They used to lure people to make investments in their cooperative society by promising them high returns.
In Uttarakhand alone, they have failed to give a maturity amount of ₹92 crore. We have also detected transactions in their accounts from other states, that takes the due maturity amount to ₹189 crore,” Pauri senior superintendent of police (SSP) Lokeshwar Singh had said.
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