The CBI has enough evidence to prove Madan Mitra’s “direct involvement” in the multi-crore Saradha chit fund case the Agency lawyers told a Kolkata court on Tuesday while in an apparent confirmation to hushed reports from the CBI interiors that the arrested Trinamool leader had “spilled more beans than expected” implicating Mamata Banerjee and others in the multi-crore scam the Bengal Transport Minister alleged before a Kolkata court that his interrogators were forcing him to incriminate the Chief Minister in the chit gate.
Mitra was reproduced before the court at the end of a four-day remand on Tuesday. The court after hearing both the sides remanded him to 3-day CBI custody.
The CBI told the court that they had chanced upon enough evidences including digital data and some documents which could stoutly prove other senior Trinamool leaders' hands in the scam before pleading for additional 5-day custody for Mitra “as the digital data needs to be sent for forensic tests.”
“There is a plan to murder me psychologically” a visibly unsettled Mitra told the court saying “group of 50 or more CBI officers are continuously pressurising me to implicate Mamata Banerjee and other senior leaders in the scam.”
The officers had even told him that they would set him free if he alluded to Banerjee's name in the scam, Mitra told the court adding “they are forcing me to talk and recording my voice in a lap top.” He said, “I am being treated as though I am a thief or a dacoit. I request your honour to grant me bail I will not escape. I will report for interrogation whenever called.”
The CBI lawyers however told the court that they had laid their hands on incriminating documents and digital data including loads of telephonic conversations between him and Saradha chief Sudipto Sen and needed to send Mitra’s voice for forensic tests so that more influential persons could be rounded up for their involvement.