Chit fund agent dies,director commits suicide

The body count,mostly from suicides after the chit fund bubble burst,went up to 11 on Tuesday with the death of an agent and an alleged suicide by a chit fund firm director. Chit fund agent Mrinal Kanti Mondal,42,who had consumed poison on Sunday night after being hounded by depositors,died in a hospital,the police said. Mondal hailed from Sangrampur village in North 24 Parganas district.

The police found the body of Hello Chit fund director Indrajit Roy hanging at his residence here on Tuesday morning. Roy was under depression for sometime,they said.The Hooghly police,meanwhile,arrested a partner of the same firm,Biplab Biswas,for killing another director,Jayanta Sarkar,on May 5 at Chinsura in the district.