Bhubaneswar

Chit fund investors vow to intensify protest

PNS

The Arthika Sansthamanankadwara Kshatigrastanka Milita Mancha (ASKMM) on Friday organised a regional convention of duped chit fund investors belonging to four districts, Nayagarh, Khordha, Puri and Kandhamal, and passed a resolution seeking ouster of chit fund probe panel chief Justice Madan Mohan Das.

They too demanded that the CBI and Enforcement Directorate probing the multi-crore chit fund scam expedite their investigations and give justice to poor investors soon.

“Owners and staffs of all fraud chit fund companies, politician, bureaucrats and police officers who gained benefits from ponzi firms should be arrested. Besides, movable and immovable properties of the chit fund firms should be confiscated to pay off investors,” demanded the funtinaries.

They too demanded that all duped investors identified soon.

It was also resolved that two national level conventions would be held in New Delhi and Bhubaneswar to press for ammendent of erroneous laws.

Mancha divisor Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, CPI(M) leader Biswanath Mohapatra, Samajwadi Party State president Rabi Behera, Utkal Bharat chief Kharavela Swain, lok Shakti Abhiyan Odisha chief Prafulla Samantara called upon all investors to unite and fight for justice.