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According to the charge sheet, the defendant Perth Gopal Banik appeared before the ACC on July 26 last year and addressed the investigation team. At one stage of the interrogation, Perth Gopal Banik said that he had 3 million rupees in cash at his home. He was unable to show the legitimate source of this money. Later, 60 lakh rupees were seized from his home. Perth Gopal Banik obtained his master’s degree in International Relations from Jahangirnagar University in 1997. In 2002, he joined the ranks of superintendent of prisons. On October 12, 2014, he was promoted to the position of Deputy Inspector General of Prisons. A departmental case was filed against him in 2012.
However, he was acquitted of the departmental case. He later earned hundreds of thousands of rupees illegally using various tactics from his job for neglect of duty and abuse of power. Although Perth Gopal Banik joined the service in 2002, he did not show any cash on his statement. Perth Gopal Banik did not even show the Rs 60 lakh seized on the income tax return. The court filed charges against Perth Gopal Banik on November 4. According to ACC sources, the flat in Perth Gopal Kalabagan was bought by his mother-in-law Manju Saha.
