Sudipta threat to reveal all
Saradha Group boss Sudipta Sen on Thursday threatened to reveal all once the investigations were over even as the Bidhannagar court sent him to police custody in another case, this time for nine days. His close aides Debjani Mukherjee and Arvind Singh Chauhan were also sent to nine days’ in police custody.
Mr Sen, Ms Mukherjee and Mr Chauhan were produced before the court of additional chief judicial magistrate, Bidhannagar, A.H.M Rahman after the expiry of 14 days’ police custody in the first case which was started on the basis of an FIR filed by Arpita Ghosh.
The fresh case was started on the basis of an FIR filed by an investor who had deposited and lost `5.5 lakhs in a Saradha scheme.
Praying for bail, defence counsel argued that the accused have cooperated with the police during interrogation and that they have no intention to abscond.
However, their bail plea was rejected by the court.
In the past fortnight that he had been in captivity, he has grown a grey beard, looked weak and dishevelled while Ms Mukherjee was well-dressed and looked calm and confident.
After the conclusion of the court proceedings, while Mr Sen was being taken to the prison van, the reporters asked him to name the people he had given money. He said he would speak when the time came.
After he boarded the prison van, the reporters again asked him if he wanted to say something. “I will speak. Wait for sometime. Let the investigation be over. I will speak,” he replied.
Sources said that Mr Sen wanted to send a clear message to those influential people who used to receive huge amounts of money from him to provide him with their patronage that he would spill the beans.
In the court, his lawyer said that his business collapsed because he was duped by a section of his employees and fleeced by influential people including politicians, former police personnel, bureaucrats and business tycoons.
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