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Member questions Saradha panel report’s legal validity
Kolkata : Two days after the now-wound up Justice Shyamal Sen Commission submitted its final report on the Saradha chit fund scam, one member of the three-man panel has questioned the legal validity of the document.
Amlan Basu, whom the commission’s website describes as chairman and director, West Bengal Mineral Development and Trading Corporation Limited, Friday said neither he, nor former DGP Jogesh Chatterjee —- both members of the commission headed by Justice (retd) Shyamal Sen —- has signed the final report submitted before the West Bengal government. Only Justice Sen has signed the 404-page report.
“In the absence of our signatures, I don’t think the report is legally valid. It is not a report of the commission but just an opinion of an individual,” Basu said while talking to The Indian Express.
He, however, said it all depends on the state government now. “If it accepts the report, we can’t say anything,” he added.
While Chatterjee could not sign the report as he is in Bangalore for the last one month due to family reasons, Basu claimed he could not sign the report because the chairman did not call him.
“I did not go to office on its last two days because I heard the investors could gherao it. I did not know that the chairman would submit the report without our signatures,” Basu said.
Chatterjee could not be reached for comments.
Basu found support in Bikas Ranjan Bhattacharya, lawyer and former Mayor of Kolkata. “Without the signatures of other members it is an inconclusive report. In fact, this commission was a farce, formed to fool people,” Bhattacharya, a member of CPIM state committee, told The Indian Express.
However, the chairman claimed that the signatures of the commission’s members were not required in the final report. “There is no technical problem if other members do not sign the report. I am the chairman of the commission and I signed the report,”
Sen said talking to The Indian Express.
Sen said he has, in his report, requested the state government to appoint a special officer who may be given the assignment of paying the compensation to those investors who had applied to the commission and whose hearing had been compensated.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had formed the commission headed by Sen, a former chief justice of Allahabad high court, with Basu and Chatterjee as its members, to probe into the claims of the investors who had lost money and compensate them. Mamata had also promised to set up a corpus of Rs 500 crore to pay the duped depositors.
However, the state government allocated only Rs 287 crore to the commission to be disbursed among 4.98 lakh applicants who had lost up to Rs 20,000 in Saradha scam.
As per the commission, cheques worth Rs 251 crore were sent to the depositors of which cheques worth Rs 102 crore had come back.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/member-questions-saradha-panel-reports-legal-validity/#sthash.EImxNSEr.dpuf
Amlan Basu, whom the commission’s website describes as chairman and director, West Bengal Mineral Development and Trading Corporation Limited, Friday said neither he, nor former DGP Jogesh Chatterjee —- both members of the commission headed by Justice (retd) Shyamal Sen —- has signed the final report submitted before the West Bengal government. Only Justice Sen has signed the 404-page report.
“In the absence of our signatures, I don’t think the report is legally valid. It is not a report of the commission but just an opinion of an individual,” Basu said while talking to The Indian Express.
He, however, said it all depends on the state government now. “If it accepts the report, we can’t say anything,” he added.
While Chatterjee could not sign the report as he is in Bangalore for the last one month due to family reasons, Basu claimed he could not sign the report because the chairman did not call him.
“I did not go to office on its last two days because I heard the investors could gherao it. I did not know that the chairman would submit the report without our signatures,” Basu said.
Chatterjee could not be reached for comments.
Basu found support in Bikas Ranjan Bhattacharya, lawyer and former Mayor of Kolkata. “Without the signatures of other members it is an inconclusive report. In fact, this commission was a farce, formed to fool people,” Bhattacharya, a member of CPIM state committee, told The Indian Express.
However, the chairman claimed that the signatures of the commission’s members were not required in the final report. “There is no technical problem if other members do not sign the report. I am the chairman of the commission and I signed the report,”
Sen said talking to The Indian Express.
Sen said he has, in his report, requested the state government to appoint a special officer who may be given the assignment of paying the compensation to those investors who had applied to the commission and whose hearing had been compensated.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had formed the commission headed by Sen, a former chief justice of Allahabad high court, with Basu and Chatterjee as its members, to probe into the claims of the investors who had lost money and compensate them. Mamata had also promised to set up a corpus of Rs 500 crore to pay the duped depositors.
However, the state government allocated only Rs 287 crore to the commission to be disbursed among 4.98 lakh applicants who had lost up to Rs 20,000 in Saradha scam.
As per the commission, cheques worth Rs 251 crore were sent to the depositors of which cheques worth Rs 102 crore had come back.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/member-questions-saradha-panel-reports-legal-validity/#sthash.EImxNSEr.dpuf
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