Guwahati: Sumi Borah, the controversial Assamese actress, and her husband Tarkik Borah, suspected of a multi-crore online trading scam, surrendered to authorities Thursday morning.
Taking to X, the DGP of Assam Police, Gyanendra Pratap Singh, wrote, “The game is up for them. Compliments to the Team STF.”
A Special Task Force (STF) of Assam Police was formed to investigate the trading fraud.
The couple was arrested after they surrendered in Dibrugarh. The duo had been on the run since the scam surfaced last week, and it was revealed that Borah was well connected with Bishal Phukan, the kingpin of the Rs 2,200 crore fraud.
Earlier on Wednesday night, Sumi Borah circulated a video on social media claiming that she has not fled but has been hiding due to propaganda being run against her.
She alleged that plenty of misinformation was being spread, and her family had been suffering greatly as a result.
In the video, Borah announced that she would surrender before the police.
Borah and Phukan are both from Dibrugarh, Assam. Phukan leveraged Borah’s connections in the Assamese film industry to secure clients for his company. According to insiders, the actress also persuaded powerful members of society to invest in Phukan’s online trading system for significantly bigger returns.
Sumi Borah married photographer Tarkik Borah last year in a destination wedding in Udaipur, Rajasthan. People from the Assamese film industry were flown to Udaipur, and Bishal Phukan covered their expenses. He reportedly spent at least Rs 5 crore on Sumi Borah’s lavish wedding.
To recall, after the arrest of Bishal Phukan, Sumi Borah immediately came under the police scanner. Police went to her apartment in the Pathar Quarry area in Guwahati. However, the actress and her husband were not at home. Police searched every apartment in the society complex, but there was no trace of the duo. “We found Sumi Borah’s luxury car in the basement of the apartment building. However, the couple fled before the investigation team reached there,” a police official had earlier said.
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–IANS
