Summons to two CPM leaders in Saradha scam

Summary

The police visited Deb’s house around midnight Tuesday to issue the summons and asked him to appear before the Electronics Complex police station.

CPM leaders Gautam Deb and Sujon Chakraborty, who have been served summons, refused to appear before the West Bengal Police in connection with a case related to the Saradha chit fund scam, citing ongoing elections. Both have alleged the move as “vindictive and retaliatory” by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

The summons to Deb, a former housing minister in the Left government, was issued hours after he had claimed to have documentary evidence showing how Banerjee’s relatives had acquired properties worth Rs 20 crore around the CM’s residence on Harish Chatterjee Street and elsewhere.

The police visited Deb’s house around midnight Tuesday to issue the summons and asked him to appear before the Electronics Complex police station on Wednesday.

Deb told The : “My lawyer has replied to the notice that I will appear in the police station after the elections. Now I am busy with elections.”

He visited the CPM party headquarters Wednesday and held meetings with senior party leaders, including Left Front chairman and CPM state secretary Biman Bose.

In another dramatic move, the Salt Lake police served summons on Sujon Chakraborty — the CPM’s Jadavpur Lok Sabha candidate and CPM state committee member.

As Chakraborty was not home, the police pasted the summons on the wall of his house.

Chakraborty is locked in a fierce fight with Trinamool Congress nominee Sugato Bose, the Harvard professor and a Netaji family member.

“This is simply indecent, to say the minimum, “ said Chakraborty. “The police could have come after talking to me. I am not running away. It was very humiliating to see the summons pasted on the wall of my house. I have replied to the notice, saying I would be coming to the police station only after the elections.”

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Summons to two CPM leaders in Saradha scam