Rajya Sabha member Kunal Ghosh, in jail as an undertrial in the Saradha chit fund scam, was on Thursday released on a two-hour parole to enable him visit his ailing mother at a nursing home here.
The journalist turned politician, who is a suspended Trinamool Congress member of the upper house pf parliament, was taken to the nursing home in central Kolkata amidst tight security to spend time with his cancer-afflicted mother.
Ghosh was granted parole by Chief Judicial Magistrate Arabindra Mitra on humanitarian grounds.
Ghosh - the group CEO of Saradha Media - was arrested on November 23, 2013, for his alleged involvement in the multi-billion rupee scandal.
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