Saradha scam: Mukul Roy faces CBI queries for 4 hours

KOLKATA: The CBI quizzed Mukul Roy on Friday but the Trinamool national secretary refused to divulge what he told the CBI about the Saradha money trail. But his body language and public state language and pu ments after the four-hour interrogation were potent enough to rattle the Trinamool top brass.

Party members burned up phone lines all evening, calling secondary sources in the fear that Roy had spilled the beans. CBI sources said Roy did not evade the questions put to him and answered most of them, even the toughest ones regarding his alleged meetings with Sa radha CEO Sudipta Sen.

The CBI questioned him on his meeting with Sen at Delo in Kurseong in March 2012, where chief minister Mama ta Banerjee, too, was allegedly present, and another one with Sen at Nizam Palace in April 2013, just before the ponzi mastermind fled Kolkata.

Sources revealed that Roy even wrote a few words about how the Saradha cash was liquidated and revealed how the high and mighty in Kalighat where chief minister Mamata Banerjee lives have benefited from the Ponzi business.

Unlike Madan Mitra, Mukul Roy did not utter Mamata's name and instead swore by the poor who were cheated, and wanted the “re al truth“ to come out in the probe. He didn't even echo his party's stand that the CBI was grilling TMC netas out of political vendetta.