The multi-crore ponzi scam accused Sudipta Sen was on Saturday remanded to judicial custody by the Bidhan Nagar court till May 31.
Sen, the chief of Saradha group that embezzled thousands of crores in the biggest ever scam in the history of Bengal, was sent to jail by the ACJM, AHM Rehman as the police did not seek any fresh
custody for him
He was given three separate remands till May 22, 23 and 31, his counsel Samir Das said, adding he would be produced at a South 24 Parganas court later for a hearing in another case.
His associate Arvind Singh Cauhan was also remanded to judicial custody while the company second in command Debjani Mukherjee was sent to hospital after she suffered food poisoning, lawyers said.
The judicial remand comes days after Calcutta High Court postponed the hearing in the PIl seeking CBI inquiry into the till June 3 saying there was no immediate need for a CBI probe.
This notwithstanding counsel Subroto Mukherjee’s plea that the case involved several thousands of crores of several lakhs of people residing not only in Bengal but also Jharkhand, Assam, Odisha, Bihar, Tripura and even UP.
Meanwhile, with the news of one more death of an agent coming on Saturday the total death toll in the Saradha case rose up to 22, police said adding all those who had died had prima facie committed suicide.