Mainstream WeeklyAn intriguing criminal case (Case No. CRR 2540 of 2024) has come up in Calcutta High Court and is expected to unravel the unholy nexus between corporates, criminals, Govt officials and Police. Notices have been issued to the Govt of West Bengal, a Tata Group company, the insurance regulator IRDAI, the Chaudhary Charan Singh University (erstwhile Meerut University) and an individual by the name of Mr. Tarun Samant.
The original FIR was registered in the year 2020 in the Park Street Police Station of Kolkata. The main accused, Mr. Tarun Samant, is accused of forgery and duping his Company and the public at large through forged documents and the other entities are accused of supporting him. As per police sources, a written complaint was filed by the complainant against Mr. Natarajan Chandrasekharan, the Tata Sons Chairman, also, for exploiting his position to protect the perpetrators and subsequently harassing the victim, as explained in details below.
The company involved is a little-known Tata Group Company that goes by the name of Tata Motors Insurance Broking & Advisory Services Limited or TMIBASL, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Motors. It is an insurance broking firm operating under the rules and regulations laid down by the insurance regulator IRDAI.
Let us delve into details of this unsavoury episode.
An individual by the name of Pijush Kanti Roy was employed in the capacity of Senior Manager at the company Tata Motors Insurance Broking & Advisory Services Ltd (TMIBASL) Kolkata office. He had joined the company in the year 2014. The IRDAI (Insurance Regulatory Development Authority of India) rules specifically state that the Chief Executive/ Principal Officer of an Insurance Broking Company needs to possess a University Graduate Degree as a minimum qualification. It is a statutory requirement. In due course of his employment, Roy started receiving emails from anonymous identities claiming to be whistle-blowers who attached copies of the PO