Saradha scam: Ex W Bengal DGP Majumdar held by CBI
11 Sept 2014 4:59 AM IST
Majumdar, who had been the DGP (Armed Police) in West Bengal, was associated with Saradha Group as a security advisor reportedly on a pay roll of Rs 10 lakh per month.
He was produced in a local court in Kolkata and remanded in the custody for further interrogation. Majumdar claimed that all the charges against him are false and fabricated. He also alleged that his name was dragged in to the scam intentionally by a section of politicians.
‘He has been arrested on grounds of conspiracy, cheating and misappropriation of funds,’ said a spokesperson for the CBI.
Majumdar’s name cropped up after suspended Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Kunal Ghosh, now behind bars, accused the former Indian Police Service officer of swindling crores of rupees in organizing a cultural programme in Las Vegas in 2012.
Majumdar joined Trinamool in recent years, and served as the party’s poll observer for Birbhum district for the 2013 panchayat election.
Earlier, on June 4, the CBI has registered four cases in connection with the nationwide multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam. Then the CBI has also formed a Special Investigating Team (SIT), headed by Joint Director Rajeev Singh, to probe the scam including the role of SEBI, RBI and MCA.
Those who were named in the FIR are Debjani Banerjee (Executive Director-Saradha Group), Manoj Nagel (Director), Aurobindo Chauhan (Driver of Saradha group), Somnath Datta (vice president of Saradha’s media group), Sudipta Sen (founder of Saradha Group) and Kunal Ghosh (former Rajya Sabha MP of Trinamool Congress).
He was produced in a local court in Kolkata and remanded in the custody for further interrogation. Majumdar claimed that all the charges against him are false and fabricated. He also alleged that his name was dragged in to the scam intentionally by a section of politicians.
‘He has been arrested on grounds of conspiracy, cheating and misappropriation of funds,’ said a spokesperson for the CBI.
Majumdar’s name cropped up after suspended Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Kunal Ghosh, now behind bars, accused the former Indian Police Service officer of swindling crores of rupees in organizing a cultural programme in Las Vegas in 2012.
Majumdar joined Trinamool in recent years, and served as the party’s poll observer for Birbhum district for the 2013 panchayat election.
Earlier, on June 4, the CBI has registered four cases in connection with the nationwide multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam. Then the CBI has also formed a Special Investigating Team (SIT), headed by Joint Director Rajeev Singh, to probe the scam including the role of SEBI, RBI and MCA.
Those who were named in the FIR are Debjani Banerjee (Executive Director-Saradha Group), Manoj Nagel (Director), Aurobindo Chauhan (Driver of Saradha group), Somnath Datta (vice president of Saradha’s media group), Sudipta Sen (founder of Saradha Group) and Kunal Ghosh (former Rajya Sabha MP of Trinamool Congress).
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