CBI report expose links between Mamata, Saradha group and IRCTC?
Moneylife Digital Team 02 September 2014
A CBI inquiry has revealed links between IRCTC and Saradha Group during the time when Mamata Banerjee was the Railway Minister
 
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's name has now allegedly got dragged into the multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam, says a report by Zee News.  
 
An inquiry by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the scam has revealed links between the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corp Ltd (IRCTC) and the Saradha Group at the time when Mamata Banerjee was the Railway Minister, the report adds. The IRCTC and a Saradha Group company in 2010, had signed a contract for a tourism project.
 
Saradha Tours and Travels officially organised South India package tours for the IRCTC, as part of the Bharat Tirth scheme launched in the 2010-11 Rail Budget by Mamata Banerjee. The Bharat Tirth scheme envisaged launching 16 special trains connecting popular tourist sites and pilgrimage centres in different parts of the country.
 
Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress on Tuesday claimed that CBI, which is probing the multi-crore chit fund scam, is being used as a political weapon by the Centre. "Earlier CBI was known as the Congress Bureau of Investigation. CBI has not changed its character," Trinamool Congress all-India general secretary Mukul Roy told reporters at the party headquarters in Kollata.
 
While the Left party has demanded a probe into the revelations, union minister of state for Railways Manoj Sinha has ruled out any such inquiry.
 
"When CBI is probing, there is no need for any inquiry by the Railways. Whoever is found guilty in CBI probe, the government will take strict action," Sinha told Zee News.
 
Asked if those at the helm of affairs of the department then would be under the scanner, the MoS said: "I an not taking any names. CBI is inquiring. Whoever is found guilty in the probe, whosoever he may be or she may be, the law will take its own course,” Zee News added.
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Dev
1 decade ago
I happened to read an article written in http://www.haribhakt.com. The article makes serious allegation against her religion. I think it is just a slander job to portray her as anti-Hindu.
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