Ranchi: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has registered a case against late Sahara chairman Subrata Roy‘s wife Swapna, her sons Susanto and Simanto, and nine others for alleged illegal sale of land purchased with investors’ funds.CID sources on Monday said that the case has been registered. Among the accused persons are former chairman late Subrata Roy’s wife Swapna Roy, her sons Susanto Roy and Simato Roy, relative Jaybrat Roy, company personnel O P Srivastava and Neeraj Kumar Pal, Sanjiv Kumar, Jitendra Kumar, Shyam Veer Singh ,Pawan Kumar, Tapas Rai and other directors and partners. Nagendra Kumar of Dhanbad had filed a complaint with CID accusing Sahara India of cheating its shareholders in Jharkhand of thousands of crores of rupees. The CID formed a special investigation team and based on its finding, registered the FIR on July 11. The matter, however, has come to light now. Talking to TOI on Monday, CID IG Sudarshan Mandal said, “A DSP rank officer has been appointed to investigate the case. Soon the accused would be issued notices for questioning and collection of evidences in the case.” According to the FIR, the company has illegally sold land plots in Patna and Begusarai in Bihar and Bokaro in Jharkhand in violation of the Supreme Court order. Moreover, instead of depositing the proceeds with Security Exchange Board of India the money was used for own consumption. Notably, according to report, around 30,000 people of Jharkhand had invested in the Sahara India. Claims amounting to around Rs 400 crore have been made by them against the company.Talking to an electronic media, DGP Gupta said, “There are two aspects in the entire Sahara issue — first is to return lost money of the victims and second to arrest culprits. We can assure that Jharkhand police will nab every accused in Sahara scam case, chargesheet them and jail them.” He added that the Supreme Court in 2011 had ordered Sahara India to provide list of all its properties barring it to sell any of them. In case of the sale, the proceeds should go back to those who lost money in its scam.
