Saradha scam: Sale of West Bengal CM’s painting for Rs 1.8 crore under CBI lens

  • 5 years ago
The CBI's probe into the Saradha scam has reached uncomfortably close to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, with the agency securing details from the income tax department on purchase of one of her paintings by Sudipta Sen, promoter of the now-bust chit fund company, for Rs 1.8 crore.


Sources in the agency, which also plans to call Mamata's confidant and former Union minister Mukul Roy for questioning after Diwali, said the details from the I-T department suggested that the jailed chief of Saradha group may have paid a tad too generously for Mamata's work of art.



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