The Special Judicial Magistrate (SJM) court of the CBI here on Sunday allowed the Central investigating agency to take former Artha Tatwa (AT) Group director Sambit Khuntia on a ten-day remand for further interrogation about his involvement in the scam.
The CBI on Saturday had arrested Khuntia following a raid at his residence located at the Bata Mangala Housing Board colony in Khordha district. The sleuths had also obtained the documents of 100 acres of land, owned by Khuntia in Khordha mouza, from the Commissionerate Police who had seized it from the accused earlier during their investigation.
Meanwhile, the sleuths continued a series of raids for the second day on the offices of the AT Group and residences of the company members involved in the multi-crore chit fund scam.
Eight teams of the CBI raided the company's head office located at plot number-SCR-29 in Unit-III area under the Kharvela Nagar police limits here and seized 31 computers and several important documents from the office building which was sealed by the CBI's SIT team Saturday.
Sources said the team took more than three hours to search the office. The sleuths seized several incriminating documents, hard drive and photographs of some builders and politicians from the office which would help the agency to uncover more facts in related to the scam.
Notably, the firm's head office functioned here from 2009 to 2012. The company had taken the premises on a monthly rent of Rs 75,000, sources said.
Sources said that two more teams of the agency also conducted raid on the residences of a builder Binit lalani and Odisha Jana Morcha leader Jagneswar Babu located at Patia and Saheed Nagar area respectively in the chit fund scam case.