ED questions Nusrat Jahan for nearly 6 hours in cheating case
The Basirhat MP was summoned by the ED in connection with cheating allegations against a private company, Seven Sense Infrastructure Pvt Ltd.
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TMC MP Nusrat Jahan arrives to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning in a case of alleged fraud by a real estate company, of which she was a director, in Kolkata, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. (PTI Photo) Actor and Trinamool Congress MP Nusrat Jahan was on Tuesday questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for nearly six hours in Salt Lake in connection with a cheating case.
Jahan, who is the latest TMC leader under the scanner of central probe agencies, reached ED’s Salt Lake office around 11 am.
The Basirhat MP was summoned by the ED in connection with cheating allegations against a private company, Seven Sense Infrastructure Pvt Ltd.
A group of senior citizens, accompanied by a local BJP leader Shankudeb Panda, had recently lodged a complaint to the ED, accusing the real estate company of cheating them by promising flats at affordable rates in the New Town area. They alleged that Seven Sense Infrastructure Pvt Limited received lakhs of rupees from people but did not deliver them flats. Instead, they alleged, that the directors of the company, including Nusrat Jahan, used the people’s money to construct their own flats.
Jahan has rejected the charges, saying she had taken a loan from the company and repaid it with interest in May 2017.
“I had taken a loan of Rs 1,16,00,285 from this particular company. In May 2017, I repaid the amount to the company. I have bank statements. I didn’t have papers to get a loan from banks. Every detail of this is given in the courts. It is not a political matter… Let the law take its own course,” Jahan had said in a press conference last month after getting summons from the ED.
The ED has filed a case under IPC sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 34 (acts by several people with common intention).
“This is vendetta politics by the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. They are using everything they can to accuse us and other Opposition parties. The ED summons are just another attempt to tarnish our image before the elections,” TMC leader and State Parliamentary Affairs Minister Sovandeb Chattopadhyay had said earlier.
Panda, on the other hand, has said that if the ED fails to “investigate properly”, he would move the High Court.
“It started in 2014, but no one got any flats. The police did not even register a complaint. Finally, a case was started after these people went to court. I took them to ED with all the documents. If the ED doesn’t take action, I will move the High Court. It is a huge scam. I feel this matter must be thoroughly investigated and she (Jahan) must be arrested,” said Panda.
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