Sudipta Sen sent to 14-day police custody
26 April 2013 8:18 AM IST
Sudipta Sen, at the centre of the recent chit fund scam, was produced in the Bidhannagar court on the eastern fringes on the city, and was remanded to 14-day police custody, here on Thursday.
The main accused in the Bengal chit fund scam, was brought to the city late on Wednesday night from Delhi. He is on a four-day transit remand from a Jammu and Kashmir court since he and his two associates were arrested from Sonmarg in J&K on Tuesday.
Sen and his associates, Debjani Mukherjee and Arvind Chauhan, had been on the run for nearly a week during the time his finance company unfolded. While he was underground, he sent an 18-page letter to the CBI, listing 22 politicians, including two influential MPs of the ruling Trinamool. The name of the wife of a senior UPA minister also figures in the list.
At the Kolkata court, Sen was met by hordes of protesters, some of them shouting angry slogans. The Congress activists broke past the security and tried to reach the millionaire whose chit fund bust has left thousands of small investors bankrupt. Cops had to resort to ‘lathicharge’ to disperse the crowds at Wellington Square, where the Congress-led victims assembled before walking to Writers’ Buildings, the state headquarters.
TMC QUESTIONS CHIDAMBARAM’S WIFE ROLE
On the back foot over the chit fund scam in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress on Thursday raised questions over the role of a senior Chennai-based lawyer who happens to be wife of the Union finance minister. Sudipta Sen, chairman of the scandal-ridden Saradha group, who was arrested two days ago, has said in a purported letter to CBI that politicians, journalists and lawyers had blackmailed him and taken money assuring him protection.
Those named by him included TMC MPs Srinjoy Bose and Kunal Ghosh, who have denied the charges, a Congress minister from Assam and Nalini Chidambaram, wife of Union finance minister P Chidambaram. Without mentioning her name, the TMC put a series of questions on its official website under the headline “Why was a Chennai lady lawyer fixing deals in the Saradha scam? Congress minister must clarify”.
Among the questions was the allegation by TMC that the woman lawyer charged Rs 1 crore to draft an agreement and asked why she was paid such a ‘generous’ fee and what was the quid pro quo.
The main accused in the Bengal chit fund scam, was brought to the city late on Wednesday night from Delhi. He is on a four-day transit remand from a Jammu and Kashmir court since he and his two associates were arrested from Sonmarg in J&K on Tuesday.
Sen and his associates, Debjani Mukherjee and Arvind Chauhan, had been on the run for nearly a week during the time his finance company unfolded. While he was underground, he sent an 18-page letter to the CBI, listing 22 politicians, including two influential MPs of the ruling Trinamool. The name of the wife of a senior UPA minister also figures in the list.
At the Kolkata court, Sen was met by hordes of protesters, some of them shouting angry slogans. The Congress activists broke past the security and tried to reach the millionaire whose chit fund bust has left thousands of small investors bankrupt. Cops had to resort to ‘lathicharge’ to disperse the crowds at Wellington Square, where the Congress-led victims assembled before walking to Writers’ Buildings, the state headquarters.
TMC QUESTIONS CHIDAMBARAM’S WIFE ROLE
On the back foot over the chit fund scam in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress on Thursday raised questions over the role of a senior Chennai-based lawyer who happens to be wife of the Union finance minister. Sudipta Sen, chairman of the scandal-ridden Saradha group, who was arrested two days ago, has said in a purported letter to CBI that politicians, journalists and lawyers had blackmailed him and taken money assuring him protection.
Those named by him included TMC MPs Srinjoy Bose and Kunal Ghosh, who have denied the charges, a Congress minister from Assam and Nalini Chidambaram, wife of Union finance minister P Chidambaram. Without mentioning her name, the TMC put a series of questions on its official website under the headline “Why was a Chennai lady lawyer fixing deals in the Saradha scam? Congress minister must clarify”.
Among the questions was the allegation by TMC that the woman lawyer charged Rs 1 crore to draft an agreement and asked why she was paid such a ‘generous’ fee and what was the quid pro quo.
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