AGARTALA, April 24 (TIWN): Both Badal Choudhury, Bijita Nath (Ex-CPI(M) leaders) have confirmed that CBI has noticed them about the questioning in connection with cases related to the Rose Valley chit fund scam.

Talking to TIWN over phone both the Ex-Ministers have accepted that CBI noticed both of them.

Today Minister Badal Choudhury was also seen at the Secretariat. 

"The CBI has informed the Tripura Assembly Speaker about their intention to interrogate former Left Front ministers Badal Choudhury and Bijita Nath within this week," an assembly official  said.

“I received a letter regarding this on yesterday and CBI will interrogate.....it’s true”, Bijita Nath told TIWN.

CPI-M central committee member and party's state secretary Bijan Dhar said that it was widely known that the CBI has been used by the ruling parties at the Centre.

"No CPI-M leaders and former Left Front ministers were involved with any chit fund organisations," Dhar told the media adding, “If CBI wants any information from the party leaders they would share, there is no problem in it”.

The chit fund organisation -- Rose Valley -- is now under the scanner of the Enforcement Directorate and the CBI, and its sole proprietor and Chairman Gautam Kundu was arrested in Kolkata in 2015.

The Tripura High Court had in 2015 asked the state government to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe unlawful NBFCs and chit fund organisations.

In May 2013, the earlier Left government had referred 37 cases related to chit fund companies and NBFCs to the CBI. The central probe agency, however, took up only five cases.

BJP Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has also asked the central government to widen the CBI probe into all the chit fund related activities.