Mamata indicts BJP's Assam Minister producing jailed Saradha chief's 2013 letter
Kolkata, Feb 5 (IBNS): On the third day of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's ongoing 'dharna' in Kolkata against CBI's move to quiz the Kolkata Police chief, the TMC supremo handed out to media a letter written by Saradha Chit Fund chief Sudipto Sen in 2013 in which he made an allegation against present senior Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
Sarma is currently a Bharatiya Janata Party minister after he left the Congress and joined the saffron party in 2015.
In the letter, Sudipto Sen has said that Sarma had “dramatically cheated” him and taken not less than Rs 3 crore from him over a period of one and half years.
Sarma dubs Mamata charge baseless:
Sarma said Banerjee is engaged in a 'frivolous and baseless campaign' against him.
"The frivolous & baseless campaign by @MamataOfficial Didi against me is very painful. I am not fortunate enough like your Police Commissioner. I've joined the investigations and offered my full cooperation as a witness. And all this happened much much before I joined @BJP4India," Sarma tweeted.
The frivolous & baseless campaign by @MamataOfficial Didi against me is very painful. I am not fortunate enough like your Police Commissioner. I've joined the investigations and offered my full cooperation as a witness. And all this happened much much before I joined @BJP4India
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) February 5, 2019
SC order:
Earlier this morning, the Supreme Court ordered Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar to appear before the CBI in the Sarada chit fund scam case.
The court said no coercive action would be taken against Kumar.
To Attorney General KK Venugopal's plea before the apex court the Chief Justice of India said: "We will direct the Police Commissioner to make himself available and fully cooperate."
"Going by your prayers, we don't think there should be any problem in asking Rajeev Kumar to make available himself before CBI," the CJI said according to media reports.
The central investigating agency on Monday moved the Supreme Court against the state government over its "non-cooperation".
The Supreme Court has asked the probe agency to produce evidence proving Kumar's alleged attempt to tamper evidence in the chit fund scams.
Demanding evidence, the top court said as quoted in media: "If Kolkata Police Commissioner even remotely thinks of destroying evidence, bring the material before this Court. We will come down so heavily on him that he will regret."
Reacting to the development, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who has been on a dharna for three days on the issue, said this was "a moral victory".
Image: Himanta Biswa Sarma Twitter page
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