Saradha scam: Party slams agency for sending notice seeking financial details

Trinamool Congress today slammed CBI, which has resent a notice to the party seeking its income and expense details, saying the investigation agency is working at the behest of a "particular party". "CBI is working under instructions of a particular party to put TMC in trouble," party's Secretary General Partha Chatterjee told reporters here. He also questioned CBI's competence. Chatterjee said TMC Bhavan in Kolkata received a lot of letters every day and treated all of them with importance.

"The same importance would be accorded to CBI's letter." CBI in its notice has asked details of sources of income of the party during 2010-2013 and also the expenditure pattern. A CBI source told PTI that the party had been given a week's time to respond to the notice and the investigating agency, after going through all the documents, would decide on whether to interrogate party's all-India general secretary Subrata Bakshi and Mukul Roy, who earlier held the post. The notice was resent to Bakshi who is now holding the post after the recent exit of Roy, who fell out of favour with the party. Roy was earlier quizzed by CBI in the Saradha case, soon after which he had started to apparently disassociate himself from TMC.

Before resending the notice to Bakshi, a CBI officer had called up the Trinamool Bhavan office asking for him, a move which had irked Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.