Kolkata, April 19 (). The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has frozen 10 bank accounts of Trinamool Congress MLA Jiban Krishna Saha, arrested in connection with the multi-crore teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal.
Sources said sleuths of the central agency have so far been able to trace 12 bank accounts, of which four are in the name of the arrested MLA, three in the name of his wife Togori Saha and the remaining five jointly in the name of the Saha couple . Out of these 12 bank accounts, 10 have been frozen and the remaining two will be frozen soon, said a CBI colleague.
Of the 12 bank accounts traced by the CBI, eight are in bank branches in Murshidabad district, from where Saha is the MLA, and the rest in Birbhum district.
Sources said that in the next phase, the officials of the bank branches where these accounts are maintained will be called by the CBI for details of debit and credit transactions from these accounts.
Meanwhile, the CBI is currently questioning Saha on the sources of funds for purchasing huge assets in the form of land, residential flats and oil mills in various parts of Birbhum district. Sources said the CBI officials were also perplexed as to how the arrested MLA bought such a property at a price much less than the current market value of the same property.
In this regard, the CBI has noticed a striking similarity between Shah’s modus operandi and that of Trinamool Congress stalwart and party’s Birbhum district president, Anubrata Mandal. Mandal is in judicial custody in Delhi’s Tihar Jail in connection with the multi-crore cattle smuggling scam.
In that case also, the CBI had traced huge properties in the name of Mandal and his family members which were purchased at prices much lower than the prevailing market rates.
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