Was Sudipta Sen’s muckraking howl a TMC ploy to tarnish the President?

One of the country’s seniormost civil servants rushed to Rashtrapati Bhavan on the afternoon of April 22. He had a rather delicate duty to perform: tell President Pranab Mukherjee that his name figured in Saradha boss Sudipta Sen’s letter to CBI dated April 6. Pranab was informed that according to the letter, Calcutta businessmen Sajjan Agarwal, his son Sandhir Agarwal and East Bengal club official Debabrata Sarkar extorted crores from Sen, claiming that they were “very close” to the president. Sen had also written that the alleged extortionists flaunted their “intimate connection” with SEBI chairman U.K. Sinha (whose proximity to Omita Paul, Pranab’s powerful secretary, is now under the Supreme Court scanner).

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