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17 Crore Scam : FIR against Tripura CM’s aide Bimal Chakraborty makes CPI-M embarrassed
Sankar Bhattacharjee
17 Crore Scam : FIR against Tripura CM’s aide Bimal Chakraborty makes CPI-M embarrassed
PHOTO : Chief Minister's trusted man Bimal Chakraborty (circled in red). File Photo

AGARTALA, September 20 (TIWN): Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has finally succumbed to the pressure of opposition and lodged FIR against their own comrade - Bimal Chakraborty, a senior state civil service officer and brother of CPI-M youth wing DYFI’s state secretary Amal Chakraborty, and 10 others for embezzlement of Rs 17 Cr.Bimal is known to be defecto Director of Information and Cultural Affairs department, as he is the close aide of both CM Sarkar and Finance minister Bhanu Lal Saha. He is the person who had translated the most controversial book (One plus one = Eleven) of former Chief Secretary Dr S K Panda, into Bengali.The distorted translation of books made most of the officers who wrote chapters in the book popularly called AN ARITHMETIC MISTAKE unhappy for all wrong contexts and texts but none of them including Panda was not dare to tell him anything as he was given the task by CPI-M party with the approval of Manik Sarkar.

Bimal Chakraborty was a think tank of CPI-M and most preferred intellectual!  

Soon after the assembly election is over Manik Sarkar had brought Bimal in ICA department given full charge of publication of the department. In the celebration of 50th year of Tripura assembly Bimal was seen to addressing Mr Sarkar as “Manikda” in public violating all protocol but Sarkar was happy to interact him.

Block Development Officer (BDO) Bishalgarh in West Tripura Subrata Das lodged FIR against his predecessor Bimal Chakraborty and his other juniors in different ranks for siphoning off of the amount in 2012-13 and 2013-14 financial years had been sanctioned under centrally sponsored schemes.

Police has registered case against the accused under non-bailable sections of IPS and launched investigation. However, police claimed that Bimal Chakraborty, incumbent Assistant Director of Information department was absconding since last night.

“We have put alert in all the police stations and airport to prevent his outside movement from the state to evade the arrest and we are keeping a close watch on his other family members since they are belonging to an influential family,” said a senior police officer today.

Police is also said that the then District Magistrate of West Tripura and present District Magistrate of Amravati in Maharashtra Kiran Gitte has also accused of non-action in the corruption case rather suspected to be involved in eating the money.

“The special audit observed that Mr Gitte being head of the project implementation team was suspiciously failed to make the adjustment of the fund. He neither took action against BDO Mr Chakraborty nor reported it to the administration and without clearing all pending financial issues he left the cadre and joined in Maharashtra cadre,” police stated.

Mr Gitte however, also accused of bringing chit fund company Prayag Group of Industries in the state in 2006 and patronizing them to sign MoU with Tripura government at the cost of 10 percent of the total project cost more than about Rs 3 Cr from Agartala Municipal authority for producing bio-fertilizer from degradable solid waste.

The company after signing the documents and getting the money left the state and with that MoU they had collected a few hundred crore of rupees from Odisha and Jharkhand from common public luring them a huge return, police officials stated based on the information.

Senior Police Officials also pointed out that Mr Gitte was also involved in money making business at the behest of then Chief Secretary S.K.Panda with several Maharashtra based companies in city development projects and solid waste management but unfortunately no project has been implemented properly so far.

Not only Bimal Chakraborty, his elder a chemistry teacher of Calcutta University Shyamal Chakraborty was also earning a huge amount from Tripura through Science and Technology department by state sponsored trips to Agartala at least 7 to 10 times in a year besides, charging a hefty amount of money as remuneration.

As adviced by the party, Science and Technology Council portrays Shyamal as scientist and educator of popular science with the state patronization most of the program organized by tainted publisher Gyan Bichitra, the publisher of both the controversial books of CM and CS. 

 

Earlier Update on this Scam:

 

www.tripurainfoway.com/news-details/TN/11474/mgnrega-scam-over-rs-17-crore-bdo-lodged-fir-against-former-bdo-bimal-chakraborty.html

 

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