Kolkata: Rajya Sabha member Srinjoy Bose today became the third member of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's party to be arrested in the Saradha chit fund scam, in which lakhs of people were cheated out of their savings.
Mr Bose is the second MP of the ruling Trinamool Congress to be arrested in the multi-crore scam.
Another MP Kunal Ghosh was suspended by the party before he was arrested last November. Rajat Majumdar, a former police officer and Trinamool vice president, was arrested in August.
Today's arrest signals growing trouble for the Trinamool; two of the four leaders that the Chief Minister had strongly defended at a party meeting last year are now in jail.
Mr Bose owns a Bengali newspaper. He allegedly had a deal to provide content to a TV channel owned by jailed Saradha Group chairman Sudipta Sen. Sources say investigators found massive, unaccounted flow of money from Saradha to Mr Bose.
The CBI had also summoned two state ministers for questioning today but only one, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, showed up. Transport minister Madan Mitra checked himself into a government hospital after four days at a private nursing home.
Mr Bose is the second MP of the ruling Trinamool Congress to be arrested in the multi-crore scam.
Another MP Kunal Ghosh was suspended by the party before he was arrested last November. Rajat Majumdar, a former police officer and Trinamool vice president, was arrested in August.
Today's arrest signals growing trouble for the Trinamool; two of the four leaders that the Chief Minister had strongly defended at a party meeting last year are now in jail.
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Mr Bose owns a Bengali newspaper. He allegedly had a deal to provide content to a TV channel owned by jailed Saradha Group chairman Sudipta Sen. Sources say investigators found massive, unaccounted flow of money from Saradha to Mr Bose.
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The CBI had also summoned two state ministers for questioning today but only one, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, showed up. Transport minister Madan Mitra checked himself into a government hospital after four days at a private nursing home.
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