The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested senior journalist Suman Chattopadhyay for his alleged involvement in chit fund scam in West Bengal, it has been reported.
The Week reported this from a PTI report in which officials have disclosed the information. The report said that Chattopadhyay, editor of Bengali daily Ei Samay, had allegedly “taken money from some of the chit fund owners”. According to the report, Chattopadhyay was called to the central investigating agency’s Kolkata office for questioning and he was then taken into custody. The report also states that a look out circular had been issued against him.
Sources said that the arrest was made this afternoon around 4 pm and he will be taken to Bhubaneswar later in the evening or early tomorrow.
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