By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: With BJD and BJP trading charges after CBI raids former Minister and ruling Party’s senior MLA Debi Prasad Mishra’s residence, the premier investigating agency, has filed 2 supplementary charge sheets in separate cases related to the Odiha chit fund scam at Special CJM Court (CBI cases) here, sources said on Saturday.
“CBI had registered the case on June 5, 2014, under Sections 120 B, 420 of IPC and section 4 5 and 6 of Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act, 1978 on the orders dated May 9, 2014, of the Supreme Court of India passed in Writ Petition (Civil) Number 401 of 2013 and Writ Petition (Civil) Number 413 of 2013 and took up the investigation of the case, earlier registered at Kaniha Police Station, District-Angul (Odisha) against a private group of companies based at Delhi,” a statement said.
“In the second case, a supplementary chargesheet has been filed against a private company based at Paschim Vihar, New Delhi and two others including its director. CBI had registered the case on June 5, 2014, under Sections 420, 406 of IPC and Section 66 of IT Act on the orders dated May 9, 2014, of the Supreme Court passed in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 401 of 2013 and Writ Petition (Civil) No. 413 of 2013 and taken over the investigation of the case, earlier registered at EOW Bhubaneswar (Odisha),” it said.
“It was alleged that a private company based at Paschim Vihar, Delhi was a money circulation networking company and the said company allured depositors by offering lucrative returns and collected huge money from the public without having authorisation from the competent authorities, and cheated them,” the statement read further. The supplementary charge sheet has been filed against 25 accused including the promoter and director of Golden Land Developers Group in Delhi and others, including officials of sister companies, on the allegations of misappropriation of the amount collected from the public.
On Friday, CBI sleuths had sought more documents from BJD MLA Debi Prasad Mishra in connection with much hyped Seashore Chit Fund Scam.The Supreme Court of the country had directed CBI to take up cases of 44 chit fund companies including Seashore of Odisha and accordingly since 2013 investigation is going on. Mishra as Minister of Tourism and Culture, State Government signed MoU with Seashore Group for a Water Sports Complex with Restaurant on River Mahanadi near Cuttack and another project in Khordha district. Earlier CBI also interrogated few others including Mishra in this regard few months back.
