The Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday filed the second charge sheet in the multi-crore Saradha scam accusing company chairman and managing director Sudipta Sen, close aide Debjani Mukherjee along with arrested All India Trinamool Congress leader and retired police officer Rajat Majumdar in the money swindle.
Seven persons have been named in the charge sheet which includes businessmen father and son Sajjan Agarwal and Sandhir Agarwal along with East Bengal club official Debabrata Sarkar and singer turned filmmaker from Assam Sadananda Gogoi.
Interestingly AITC MP Kunal Ghosh who was named in the first charge sheet by the Central agency filed on October 22 was not named in the second charge sheet.
Mr Ghosh has last week attempted suicide inside a city prison. His condition is stable now. Saradha Chief Sudipta Sen and her close aide were also accused in the first charge sheet that was filed before the Court of Metropolitan Magistrate (Kolkata).
“The charge sheet was submitted before the Court of ACJM Alipore under section 120 B, 420, 409 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 4 and Section 6 of the Prize Chits and Money circulation scheme (Banning) Act 1978,” a CBI official told The Hindu .
The official added that four companies of the Saradha group named in the charge sheet were Saradha Reality, Saradha Tours and Travels, Saradha Garden Hotels and Resorts and Saradha Housing.The first charge sheet was filed by the Central agency five months after the Supreme Court directed the CBI to probe the matter in May earlier this year.
The CBI has registered four FIR’s in connection with the scam and charge sheet has been registered in two of them.
