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Kolkata, November 4 (IANS) Three Trinamool Congress MLAs have alleged that they are being threatened with arrest in the name of central investigative agencies. Trinamool Congress sources said that all three lodged a police complaint on Tuesday.
It is alleged that three public representatives were called from Mumbai and pretended to be officers of Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and were lured into extorting money. When they did not fall into the trap, they were allegedly threatened with arrest. Based on his complaint, the police have registered an FIR and started investigating the matter.
It has been learned that Gosaba MLA Subrata Mandal, Baruipur East MLA Biwas Sardar and Sonarpur North MLA Firdausi Begum had received such threats over phone from many places in Maharashtra including Mumbai.
In the complaint lodged with the Baruipur district police, Biwas Sardar has written that he was pressurized to pay a huge amount of money after a person called him from the CBI office in Mumbai. When he did not agree, fake bank transaction records were sent to him. It was told that the TMC MLA gave Rs 3 crore to a person named Sadaqat Khan, who is associated with a militant organization.
It was further said that the MLA can also be arrested for that crime. The MLA claimed that such allegations are completely false. Sardar said, “ED and CBI have conspired to unnecessarily implicate me in treason and malign my image. I have lodged a complaint with the police.”
Similarly, it is alleged that Firdausi Begum and Subrata Mandal also received fake calls and emails in the name of CBI and ED. The MLAs said they were repeatedly accused of being involved in unethical activities and threatened to be implicated in false cases. In this regard, all three MLAs of South 24 Parganas district have lodged an FIR with the police.
A senior officer of Baruipur police district said, “We have received complaints from MLAs. They are being looked into. Investigation has been started based on their complaints.”
The Trinamool Congress has repeatedly alleged that the BJP-led government at the Center is using central investigative agencies against its party leaders due to political vendetta. The ruling party believes that such allegations by three Trinamool MLAs are a reflection of the same conspiracy.
–IANS
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