TMC leader to get CBI notice

A day after West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee expressed her strong displeasure over the Central Bureau of Investigation’s phone call to Trinamul Bhavan, the Central agency has decided to send a notice of summons to the ruling party’s office in the multi- crore Saradha chit fund scam.

According to sources, the notice will be addressed to Trinamul general secretary Subrata Bakshi.

The CBI will seek detailed financial documents from him about the Trinamul’s income and expenditure from 2010 till 2014.

Instead of sending the notice through fax, the CBI will send its officer to Trinamul Bhavan next week likely to serve the notice under Section 91 ( summons to produce document or other thing) of the Criminal Procedure Code, sources added.

Training guns on the ruling party, Left Front chair- man Biman Bose demanded that the Trinamul should also furnish the details of the sum of ` 15 lakhs it had given to its each candidate on the eve of the Assembly elections in 2011.

Early March, the Central Bureau of Investigation sought the financial documents from Mukul Roy, as he had been the Trinamul general secretary since the beginning, about the four years’ receipt of donations, advertisements and sale proceeds from the paintings by the party. But Mr Roy then informed it that he did not hold the post any more, passing the buck to his successor, Mr Bakshi.

On March 18, Mr Bakshi sought the documents from him in a letter which, however, reached him on March 23, sources hinted. On Friday, Mr Roy replied to Mr Bakshi in a letter to the Trinamul Bhavan address.

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