Chhattisgarh: CBI to probe alleged irregularities in PSC Exam-2021
Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai during a Cabinet meeting on January 3 this year had decided to refer the matter to the CBI for a comprehensive inquiry.
A Division Bench of Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Suvra Ghosh of Calcutta High Court directed the state government today to inform how it plans to disburse an unutilised amount of over Rs 138 crore out of Rs 500 crore earmarked for compensating investors duped in the Saradha chit fund scam.
It was a declared scheme for compensating the investors, for which the amount of Rs 500 crore was allotted by the state, the court observed. The state was directed to inform the court within four weeks, in the form of an affidavit, how it plans to disburse the remaining amount to the affected persons.
The court also asked the state government to place before it a report by the Justice (retd) Shyamal Sen Commission within four weeks. The CBI, which is investigating the chit fund scams involving various companies including the Saradha Group, was directed to file before the court a progress report of the probe.
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Subir Dey, an investor in the Saradha Ponzi scheme, petitioned the court claiming that all of the Rs 500 crore earmarked for compensating the affected persons have not been disbursed. His lawyer Arindam Das submitted that as per a reply to an RTI application, the state government has said that Rs 138.95 crore of the Rs 500 crore was not disbursed.
The state government had launched the West Bengal Compensation Scheme for Affected Persons of Saradha Scam, 2013 for giving away Rs 500 crore to the affected persons and had set up the Justice (retd) Shyamal Sen Commission on 24 April 2013, for identifying the victims and disbursing the money to them. The division bench said that it will hear the matter again after four weeks.
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