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Saradha scam: ED summons TMC students' arm leader
Kolkata, Dec 23 (IBNS): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday summoned journalist-turned Trinamool Congress' student arm leader Shankudeb Panda in connection with Saradha scam.
ED officers went to Trinamool Congress office at Topsia in Kolkata to handover the summon notice to Panda on Tuesday afternoon.
But he was not present there at that time. TMC leaders, who were present in the party office, refused to accept that notice.
ED officers then called Panda and told him about the notice.
He gave them a fax number where ED officers sent him the notice.
He has been asked to appear in the ED office at Salt Lake on Dec 30.
Panda is the former state president of Trinamool Congress Chatra Parishad (TMCP).
IBNS tried to contact Panda for his reaction but he did not receive the call.
Panda was also a stringer of ABP Ananda (Formerly Star Ananda) and a reporter of Saradha group owned TV channel 'Channel-10'.
He got an important post in TV channel 'Ekhon Somoy' which was never 'on-aired' and got 60 thousand rupees salary every month and other benefits from that channel. 'Ekhon Somoy' was a TV channel formed by artist Shubhaprasanna and Saradha group owner Sudipta Sen bought that channel from him.
Meanwhile, besides sealing a flat of artist Shubhaprasanna in Mumbai and 50 bank accounts of Congress leader Matang Singh, the ED has also seized official bond of Rs. 10 crore and a property of Rs 1.5 crore in Rajarhat of TMC's Rajya Sabha MP Srinjoy Ghosh on Tuesday.
The Saradha Group that went bust last year left lakhs of depositors in a fix.
Saradha Group chief Sudipta Sen and Saradha Group director Debjani Mukherjee were arrested in April 2013 from Jammu and Kashmir.
Several other TMC leaders, parliamentarians, were earlier taken in custody by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
West Bengal Transport Minister Madan Mitra, a close aide of state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, was arrested on Dec 12 by the probe agency.
The CBI had earlier arrested industrialist Srinjoy Bose in the scam.
Bose is the owner-editor of Bengali daily newspaper 'Sambad Protidin' and executive member of 'Mohun Bagan' football club. He is also the editor of Trinamool Congress (TMC) mouthpiece 'Jaago Bangla.'
Suspended Trinamool MP Kunal Ghosh and party vice president Rajat Majumdar were arrested earlier.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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