KOLKATA, Aug 23: The CBI today grilled former West Bengal’s director general of police Rajat Majumdar along with tainted Saradha Group chief Sudipta Sen in its city office in quest of defrauded money to the tune of Rs 10,000 crore. The CBI grilling to Mr Majumdar began at around 1100 hours and in first three hours it was directly to the former IPS officer and then for an hour jointly with Sudipta Sen, who voluntarily sought CBI custody on Thursday. When this correspondent reported the questioning was continuing as Mr Majumder, who has close proximity with ruling Trinamool Congress top leadership, accused of one of the beneficiaries of the Saradha Group of companies. Mr Majumder has been accused of taking Rs 10 lakh per month from Saradha as one of the consultants. Mr Majumder appeared into the CBI office at Salt Lake following a summon after interrogating Sen and East Bengal’s top official Debobrata Sarkar alias Nitu, who was arrested on Thursday for alleged amassing money beyond his known sources of income.
Sarkar has been also accused as one of the beneficiaries of defrauded chit fund scam.
The CBI earlier had searched the house of Mr Majumder in south Kolkata on August 14 when the national investigating agency raided 28 locations across the country in search of criminal clues of Saradha scam.
The CBI also for the second day today quizzed businessman Sandhir Agarwal and for the first time the accountant of Debobrata Sarkar in quest of locating the trail of defrauded money. (UNI)
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