‘Indian govt won’t interfere in Jamaat funding probe’
Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said law will take its own course in the probe into allegations that a portion of the multi-crore rupee Saradha chit fund scam had been funnelled by a Trinamool Congress lawmaker to Jamaat-e-Islami party in Bangladesh.
"Law will take its own course and the government will not interfere in the probe," Singh told the media when a journalist asked him about Kolkata newspapers reports alleging that huge money of Saradha chit fund scam had been sent to Jamaat, reports our New Delhi correspondent.
Leading Bangla daily "Anandabazar Patrika" today named Ahmed Hassan Imran, West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress' member of Rajya Sabha, upper House of Indian Parliament, in its lead story in the context of the allegations which Imran denied.
Imran was questioned by Indian government's Enforcement Directorate, which probes money laundering and foreign exchange rules violations, in Kolkata on September 9. The Directorate is probing the Saradha scam money trail.
The Anandabazar Patrika report said Bangladesh's National Security Intelligence (NSI) had apprised the Indian government about the Saradha scam money allegedly finding its way to Jamaat in Bangladesh.
Imran was executive editor of a Bengali newspaper "Kalom". He owned the newspaper before selling his shares to the Saradha group for Rs 2 lakh, sources said.
Meanwhile, Jamaat in a statement this evening brushed aside the allegations of the Saradha funding and condemned the media reports on the issue.
The statement described the media report as a blatant lie.
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