Supplementary chargesheet names Mitra, Srinjoy, Kunal

The CBI has also submitted chargesheet against three media companies.

Rajat Majumdar after his release from jail on Wednesday. (Source: PTI)

Naming West Bengal Cabinet minister Madan Mitra as one of the ‘main conspirators’ in the Saradha chit fund scam case, the CBI on Wednesday filed supplementary charge sheet against Mitra, former Trinamool Congress MP Srinjoy Bose, Saradha Group chief Sudipta Sen’s chief advisor Naresh Balodia and suspended party MP Kunal Ghosh, even as it shifts its focus to the role of regulatory bodies.

In the supplementary charge sheet submitted to the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Haradhan Mukherjee at Alipur here, the CBI Special Crime branch probing the case elaborated on the involvement of these Trinamool leaders in the case and accused them of cheating, CBI sources said.

The CBI has also submitted chargesheet against three media companies —- Sambad Pratidin, owned by Srinjoy Bose, Bengal Media, owned by Sudipta Sen, and Strategy Media. While operations of several media houses under Bengal media were suspended and shut down after Sen’s arrest, Pratidin continued to operate.

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The charge sheet was filed for offences under sections 120B (punishment of criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servant) of IPC and Section 4 and 6 of Prize, Chits and Money Circulation (Banning) Act of 1978, said a CBI spokesperson.

Meanwhile, CBI sources said the agency is likely to focus on the role of officials of SEBI and RBI for filing further chargesheet. They said a detailed probe into the alleged role of regulatory bodies is being worked upon which will soon be presented before the seniors officials. The sources refused to give details whether any criminality of regulatory bodies has been finalised.

CBI has already questioned senior officials of SEBI and RBI, they said.

This is the third supplementary charge sheet registered in this case. The first was submitted at the City Sessions Court on October 22, 2014, and the second at the Alipur Court on November 17, 2014.

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Significantly, Bose was granted conditional bail on February 4 after spending 75 days in jail, while the remaining three are still in judicial custody. Bose quit TMC a day after he was released, and also resigned from the post of an MP.

Meanwhile, TMC leader and former IPS officer Rajat Majumdar was released Wednesday after he got bail on Monday. Majumdar, however, did not talk to the media after being released.

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