AGARTALA, October 17 (TIWN): Tripura Pradesh Trinamool Congress today gheraoed the Bishalgarh Police Station demanding immediate arrest of all 12 officials including former Bishalgarh Block Development Officer , Scamster Bimal Chakraborty in connection to Rs. 17 crores scam in Bishalgarh RD Block. They also demanded for CBI investigation into the Scam.Leaders from eight Assembly constituencies of the Trinamool Congress joined the movement. “Chief Minister is trying to conceal the scam of Bishalgarh RD Block. Without arresting them, they were merely suspended from their post,” said Chairman of Tripura Pradesh Trinamool Congress Ratan Chakraborty. Mr. Chakraborty alleged that Finance Minister (FM) Bhanu Lal Saha is behind the scam. The role of Police and Government in this regard is doubtful, he added. Ratan Chakraborty further said that, the police are conducting fake raids in the name of investigation to cover up the case. Due to the involvement of big heads of the CPIM party, directly or indirectly involved in the multicrore scam of Bishalgarh R.D. Block the police are unable to perform their duty as per the law, he mentioned.

He also alleged that, during the time of the raid some documents related to the multi crore scam of MGNREGA of Bishalgarh RD Block was seized by the police but due to high level political influence the  police are trying to hide all the evidences.

If the police do not arrest any of the accused persons we will file a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) with High Court regarding the issue on October 27, he informed.

It is to be mentioned here that after tremendous pressure from all corners and widespread  media publication on the RS 17 crore MGNREGA scam BDO Bishalgarh RD Block Subrata Das lodged FIR against the then BDO of the block Bimal Chakraborty in Bishalgarh Police station . Police registered a case in this issue (Case no-135/14) under section 409 of IPC. The special Internal Audit Report of MGNREGA for the FY 2012-13 and FY 2013-14 massive misappropriation of more than Rs 17 crore was found. The special Internal Audit wad audited during 05/05/2014 to 30/06/2014.

Bimal Chakraborty is the brother of DYFI State Unit Secretary Amal Chakraborty. Apart from this his another brother Kamal Chakraborty is now the Commandant of 11 BN TSR . Bimal Chakraborty was appointed as a Panchayat Extension Officer in MataBari RD Block way back in 1997 from the very beginning Bimal Chakraborty was under the scanner of his higher officials due to his doubtful attitude. But none could have done anything as hails from a politically influential family of the ruling party CPI(M).