At a time when many thought that dust has settled over the multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam and the probe by the central agencies in the matter, the scandal has once again surfaced.
Two contradictory letters have resurrected the scam that left lakhs of ordinary investors in a desperate situation in the opening years of the last decade. One letter is from the Saradha Group’s founder chairman, Sudipta Sen, which he wrote to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) last year before the West Bengal assembly polls, accusing the current leader of the state assembly, Suvendu Adhikari and some CPI(M) leaders of being the beneficiaries in the scam,
The second letter that surfaced as late as September 8, was forwarded to the CBI by Sarbari Mukherjee, mother of Sudipta Sen’s once second-in-command in Saradha affairs, Debjani Mukherjee. In that letter, Sarbari Mukherjee has accused Abhijit Mukherjee, an inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal police of putting pressure on her daughter to name Suvendu Adhikari and the CPI(M) central committee member, Sujan Chakraborty as beneficiaries of the Ponzi scam.
Both Sudipta Sen and Debjani Mukherjee are in judicial custody.
While the CID-West Bengal has issued a statement claiming that the allegations on this count are baseless, the floodgates of political mud-slinging have opened where these two contradictory letters have become tools for the two opposing forces, namely the ruling Trinamool…
