CBI Special Director Rakesh Asthana on Tuesday held a meeting with senior CBI officials investigating the multi-crore chit fund cases in Kolkata. The top CBI officer who was in Kolkata to take stalk of the Sharada, Narada and Rose Valley cases was likely to meet theinvestigating officers on Wednesday.
While the ruling Trinamool Congress a number of whose leaders were currently being probed in the multiple scams promptly linked Asthana’s visit to the approaching election year CBI sources said the top officer’s visit was necessitated ahead of the deadline before which a detailed report would have to be submitted in the Calcutta High Court.
The CBI is currently probing about 400 chit fund cases including the Rs 2,500 crore Sharada chit fund scam. All the scams took place inBengal, Odisha, Assam, Tripura and some other States.