AGARTALA, February 18 (TIWN): Tripura has no specific CBI court to deal CBI cases. But few courts of the state have already been selected to deal with CBI cases. Replying to a question raised by MLA Ratan Lal Nath at Assembly today Law minister Tapan Chakraborty said that the state has no specific CBI court. But few courts of the state have been already selected to deal with CBI cases, the Minister informed.The minister further added that total 37 Non-Banking Financial Companies'(NBFCs) cases of the state have been handed over to CBI through the central government. According to the minister, out of the 37 cases the CBI has taken only six cases of NBFCs and no charge-sheet of the six cases filed yet which were taken over by CBI.Apart from that, 1990 Shyam Hari Sharma murder case and the 2000 Bhola Saha murder cases which were solved, the minister mentioned. Earlier, opposition leader Ratan Lal Nath said “It was a calculated move of the ruling left front government because name of many CPI-M leaders are involved in NBFC deals. Moreover, in case of Rose Valley, Sarada Group of Finance and Waris Group of Industries Chief Minister Manik Sarkar himself was involved in the promotion of them in Tripura”.

Opposition leader Ratan Lal Nath alleged that the state government had sent 37 cases related to NBFC cheating in 2013 but in case of Rose Valley, Sarada Gro-up of Finance and Waris Group of Industries, the original FIR did not mention the amount of money and against 29 others the amount was shown very low. In 2014, when again CBI was requested to take up the remaining 32 cases, there too was no mention of the estimated amount cheated by the companies.

He alleged that Rose Valley, having the largest NBFC network in the state has collected more than Rs 750 crore taking license from the state government. Altogether about Rs 1,500 core was cheated by 97 NBFCs including Rose Valley, Sarada Group and Waris but the state government has failed to take any action against them.”Unfortunately, by the time most of the NBFCs have left the state selling out their properties, neither CBI nor the state government could ensure the repayment of the commoners’ money so far,” he alleged.