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  Naveen's personal aide Saroj Sahu appears before CBI

  Politics | November 22, 2014 16:28 IST

  Bhubaneswar: Saroj Sahu, personal aide of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, appeared at the CBI office here apparently for questioning by the central agency which is probing into the multi-crore chitfund scam.Sahu, who looks after

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  Allow central agencies to work independently: Bengal governor

  Politics | November 20, 2014 17:12 IST

  Kolkata:  West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi Thursday asked people not to draw any inferences from the CBI summoning political leaders in the state for questioning and called for allowing the central probe agencies to function

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  Government ready to discuss chitfund scam in assembly: Naveen Patnaik

  Politics | November 19, 2014 21:54 IST

  Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday said the government was ready for discussion on the multi-crore chit fund scam in the Assembly as demanded by the opposition Congress and the BJP."I have already

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  Welcome CBI search, will help in truth to come out: Pyarimohan Mohapatra

  Politics | November 18, 2014 16:56 IST

  Bhubaneswar: Rajya Sabha MP Pyarimohan Mohapatra, whose residence here was searched by CBI today in connection with the multi-crore rupees ponzi scam, said some people have launched a "campaign" against him and the searches will

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  Chit fund scam: CBI raids 22 places in Odisha

  India | November 18, 2014 13:29 IST

  Bhubaneswar: The CBI Tuesday conducted raids at 22 places in Odisha in connection with the Seashore Group's chit fund scam afffeccting thousands of depositors in the state.The raids were conducted at 16 locations in Bhubaneswar,

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  None in my party has taken money from chit funds: Mamata Banerjee

  Politics | November 06, 2014 7:06 IST

  Kolkata: Virtually giving a clean chit to the Trinamool Congress and its leaders on the chit fund scam, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday claimed nobody from her party has taken money from chit

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  Chit fund scam: CBI arrests 3 functionaries of Nabadiganta

  India | October 27, 2014 20:55 IST

  Bhubaneswar: The CBI today took three senior functionaries of the chit fund company, Nabadiganta Capital Services, who were arrested yesterday, on remand for six days as per permission of a special court here.The CBI had

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  Saradha Group head sentenced to 3 years imprisonment

  India | February 21, 2014 18:56 IST

  Kolkata: Saradha Group chairman Sudipto Sen was sentenced to three years' rigorous imprisonment by a Bidhannagar court today in a provident fund default case, making it Sen's first conviction in a slew of cases involving

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  Suspended TMC leader Kunal Ghosh gets bail in first scam case

  India | December 13, 2013 17:45 IST

  Kolkata: Suspended Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh, who was arrested on November 23 in connection with the Saradha Group chit fund scam, was today granted bail in the first among several cases lodged against him.

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  Saradha scam worth Rs 2,460cr; owner in control of deposits: Report

  India | October 20, 2013 16:03 IST

  New Delhi: The alleged chit fund scam in West Bengal involving the Saradha Group revolves around a total sum of Rs 2,460 crore with 80 per cent of the depositors' monies still remaining unpaid, a

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  Naveen seeks Presidential assent for anti-chit fund Bill

  Politics | May 20, 2013 18:10 IST

  Bhubaneswar, May 20: With Opposition Congress and BJP announcing plans to make chit fund fraud a poll issue, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today wrote to the Union Home Minister seeking his intervention for an early

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  Saradha boss now denies links with Mamata regime

  India | May 17, 2013 8:05 IST

  Kolkata, May 17: The Saradha chit fund scam's suspected kingpin Sudipta Sen who earlier had reached out to the CBI accusing West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress of complicity in the swindle, has now approached the

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  Saradha boss now denies links with Mamata regime

  Politics | May 17, 2013 7:32 IST

  Kolkata, May 17: The Saradha chit fund scam's suspected kingpin Sudipta Sen who earlier had reached out to the CBI accusing West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress of complicity in the swindle, has now approached the

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  Police unearth Rs.750 crore assets of Saradha chief

  India | May 12, 2013 8:13 IST

  Kolkata, May 12: Police have unearthed property worth Rs.750 crore so far by quizzing chit fund-aided Saradha Group's arrested promoter Sudipa Sen and his top aides, an official said Saturday. Six motorcycles with red beacons

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  Saradha scam accused Debjani Mukherjee denies intimate relationship with Sudipto Sen

  India | May 10, 2013 20:34 IST

  Kolkata, May 10: Debjani Mukherjee, who was director of at least five media companies of the Saradha group, has in a statement sent from jail, claimed innocence and said that she never had intimate relationship

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  CPI(M) alleges probe into Saradha scam not going forward

  Politics | May 08, 2013 7:27 IST

  Kolkata, May 8: Senior CPI(M) leaders yesterday alleged that the investigations into the Saradha chitfund bust were not going forward since the police were being 'instructed' from 'Writers' Buildings' on what it should and should

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  Chit fund scam: Toll mounts, opposition steps up heat for CBI probe

  India | May 08, 2013 11:22 IST

  Kolkata, May 8: The death count mounted in the Saradha chit fund scam which has rocked West Bengal with yet another agent ending his life, while the opposition stepped up pressure yesterday on the Mamata

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  Banerjee knew everything about chit fund scam: Buddhadeb

  Politics | May 06, 2013 10:46 IST

  Kolkata, May 6: Attacking West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, her predecessor and CPI-M leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Sunday termed as "lies" her statement that she knew nothing about the chit fund scam before the Bengali

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  Chit fund scam: Mamata Banerjee to hit the streets on Thursday

  Politics | May 02, 2013 11:14 IST

  Kolkata, May 2: In a bid to prevent the Opposition from cashing in on the Saradha chitfund scam, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will hit the streets on Thursday to shift the blame to

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  Bengal ex-minister's aide questioned in chit fund scam

  India | May 02, 2013 6:47 IST

  Kolkata, May 2: Police yesterday quizzed an aide of a prominent minister of the erstwhile Left Front government of West Bengal, as also an official of a state-run corporation during the Left regime, in the