TIWN April 26, 2018
AGARTALA, April 26 (TIWN): After CBI had interrogated Tripura CPI-M Ex-Minister Bijita Nath in Rose Valley Chit Fund scam on Wednesday, today since 4 pm CBI has started interrogation with CPI-M’s another Ex-Minister Badal Choudhury in the MLA Hostel.
The CBI who served notice to two heavyweight Ex-CPI-M Ministers MLA Bijita Nath and MLA Badal Choudhury for interrogation in Rose Valley chit fund scam had entered the MLA hostel at 4 pm and an hour-long interrogation the CBI held with Badal Choudhury.
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.
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