SARADHA SCAM: CBI NAMES EX-DGP IN 2ND CHARGE SHEET

The CBI submitted its second charge sheet in the Saradha scam on Monday in which it named former director general (state armed police) and Trinamool vice president, Rajat Majumdar and East Bengal Club official Debabrata Sarkar. It was filed before the court of additional chief judicial magistrate, Alipore.

The charge sheet was in response to a batch of 55 FIRs filed. Others named in the 30-page document included Saradha chairman Sudipta Sen, executive director Debjani Mukherjee, a city-based businessman Sandhir Agarwal and his father Sajjan Agarwal, an Assam-based singer Sadananda Gogoi. It also names four Saradha group companies Saradha Reality India Ltd, Saradha Tours and Travels Pvt Ltd, Saradha Housing Pvt Ltd and Saradha Garden Resorts and Hotel Pvt Ltd.

The name of a Sebi official has also been mentioned in the document, hinted the CBI lawyer.

The first charge sheet was filed on October 22. The scam mentioned in the second charge sheet is around ` 774 crores.

“The accused have been booked under section IPC sections 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker, merchant or agent) 120B (criminal conspiracy to commit an offence), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) and sections 4 & 6 of the prize chits and money circulation schemes (Banning) Act, 1978,” said Parthasarathi Dutta, the CBI lawyer.

“The investigation is continuing and more people might be booked,” Dutta said. As many as 42 witnesses were mentioned in the charge sheet.

On Monday, when the charge sheet was being filed before the court, the defence lawyer raised objection that already it was too late in the day.

THE NAME OF A SEBI OFFICIAL HAS ALSO BEEN MENTIONED IN THE SECOND CHARGESHEET