Saradha scam: TMC MP Kunal Ghosh arrested

Writes to PM seeking CBI probe in Saradha scam

The suspended Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh, who claimed to have been summoned for questioning for eleven times so far, today alleged of being blackmailed by a top cop in connection to Saradha scam.

 

"Arnab Ghosh is doing criminal blackmailing. He is asking me to share all details about Saradha. But I am only aware of Saradha's media business, which I have already shared with the police.He is threatening to arrest me now," Kunal Ghosh said today. The cop in question ,Arnab Ghosh , is  the depty commissioner of detective department of Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate, who has been in charge of the Saradha probe.

 

The TMC MP, who was group media CEO of Sardha's media wing until the company went bust six months ago, today visited the  Bidhannagar south police station in Kolkata to hand over a written request to lodge a formal FIR against Arnab Ghosh for "criminal blackmailing".

 

While the poice has accepted the application, it is not clear whether the FIR has been lodged. Bidhannagar police remained silent on the matter. 

 

Meanwhile, alleging witchhunting against him by the state police, Kunal Ghosh written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking a CBI probe into the scam, a stand which has been constantly being opposed by Mamata Banerjee-government.

 

"I have written to PM asking for CBI probe. I am being singled out. Unless there is CBI probe the truth will not come out," Ghosh said.

 

Incidentally, the TMC MP had yesterday hit out at prty top leaders dragging names of Mamata Banerjee and Mukul Roy in connection to the controversy.

 

" 'Madam, I am setting up my media house in a way that it helps you become the PM.' This is what Sudipta Sen told Mamata,"  Ghosh had told yesterday. He had also apprehended that he might be arrested in a day.

 

He alleged that the police was "taking orders" from TMC general scretary Mukul Roy. TMC, however, refused to offer any comment to Ghosh' charges.

 

Incidentally, it was Left Front chairman Biman Bose he, in a way,  lent his voice to support Kunal Ghosh' demand for CBI probe into the matter. "Now from Kunal Ghos' account it appears, so many big leaders and ministers are involved. Only a CBI probe can unearth the truth," Biman Bose said.