AGARTALA, March 5 (TIWN): Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Ramendra Chandra Debnath and Chief Minister Manik Sarkar remained mum over the issue of CBI raid in the Rose Valley Office on wednesday. Though there is a rumour that Speaker is being given notice by CBI to interrogate on the matter of Rose valley. But when the Speaker was asked about this issue, Mr. Debnath simply maintained silence over the issue. Speaker told that there no hard and fast rule to inform the Speaker about this. Only at the time of arrest or bailed out intimation letter should be given to Speaker. While, in the Assembly, when Opposition MLA Gopal Roy wanted to know from Chief Minister about the recent investigation , Manik Sarkar simply avoided this by saying that no such information were provided to him. Meanwhile, two officials of Rose Valley namely Narayan Debnath resident of Dhaleshwar and Santosh Kumar Bhowmik resident of Champaknagar were picked by the CBI for interrogation. According to official figures, the Rose Valley had collected Rs 196 crore during the past three years from Tripura, out of which an amount of Rs 86 crore has been returned on maturity. Rose Valley authorities could not give any explanation where the remaining Rs 110 crore money is ?

However, CBi on today morning, Around 8 Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials raided the head office of chit Fund Company Rose Valley at around 7:30 am, here on wednesday. No company official was present when the CBI team reached the office.  The Kolkata based chit fund company has several branch offices in West Bengal while over twelve thousand agents are working in the ‘down line’.