CID to probe into Juhee's Delhi visits

BJP Mahila Morcha state secretary Juhee Chowdhury had taken the prime accused of the Jalpaiguri child trafficking racket case to Delhi with a plan to meet the Union Minister of Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is working out to find how far they went in securing a meeting with Gandhi. The investigating officers came to know that they had met additional personal secretary of a Union minister of state in Delhi during their visit on January 10. They had also attempted to fix an appointment with another senior official posted with the Home Ministry.

The CID has come to know the name of the additional personal secretary to the Union minister of state with whom Juhee and the prime accused Chandana Chakraborty had met. If needed, the investigating officers will speak with the bureaucrats to verify the statements given by Chandana.

According to the sources in CID, Juhee and Chandana went to Delhi as the latter was not getting the licence to run her destitute homes renewed for certain discrepancies. Their purpose was not getting solved even after meeting certain top bureaucrats in Delhi on January 10. Thus, they had planned to meet the Union Minister of Women and Child Development and they were scheduled to leave for Delhi on Saturday.

CID came to know that Chandana had spent hours in Juhee's residence on Friday where they had a final discussion on how to execute their plans after reaching Delhi on Saturday. Chandana and an employee of her home, Sonali Mondal, were being interrogated on Monday. A CID officer said: "We will definitely interrogate Juhee as well."

CID has frozen all bank accounts of Chandana and her organisations. The officers have been calculating the transaction from her bank accounts and they will be able to come to a final count on the transactions that will help the investigating officers to ascertain how much money she made by trafficking children.

Rajesh Kumar, ADG (CID), said: "We are investigating into the incident and nobody will be spared."