Kolkata: Trinamool Congress MP and actor Nussrat Jahan is dealing with heat for her alleged hyperlinks with a actual estate corporation that is said to have siphoned off money from belongings shoppers.
Adding to the troubles of the primary-time Lok Sabha MP is a court statement that prima facie a case can be made in opposition to the accused.
Nussrat was one of the directors of the corporation, 7 Sense Infrastructure Pvt Ltd, which had a deadline to supply the flats in New Town in the suburbs of Kolkata through 2017. The actual property corporation in question is accused of taking Rs 5.5 lakh each from 429 homebuyers to supply residences after which swindling the cash.
A leader of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in conjunction with a collection of aggrieved homebuyers went to the Enforcement Directorate office on Tuesday in Kolkata to report a complaint towards Nussrat.
“Those named within the case have already been granted bail, however Nussrat didn’t make any private appearance before the court. She has taken a stay within the case from the Alipore Court,” Sushanto Kumar Hazra, a complainant in the case, told the media Friday.
Hazra in addition alleged Nussrat had offered a flat well worth over Rs 1 crore in a complex locality in Kolkata with the money transferred from the account of shoppers.
Nussrat, but, has denied all the allegations claiming she had already resigned because the director of the actual property firm in 2017.
“I have not come here to present any explanation as I haven’t committed any offense. It’s a media trial. I am not worried in any fraudulent exercise, I resigned as its director in March 2017. I don’t realize why I am being falsely blamed,” the primary-time Lok Sabha MP said at a press briefing Wednesday in Kolkata Press Club.
She claimed to have taken a loan of Rs 1.16 crore from 7 Sense Infrastructure and had lower back Rs 1.40 crore with hobby.
At the nation secretariat on Wednesday, West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee refused to comment on the episode and brought that her MP become the proper individual to remark.
“Nussrat will communicate about her case. Let the law be triumphant,” she asserted.
Court determined prima facie case in opposition to accused
A judicial Justice of the Peace court in Kolkata had acquired an inquiry record on 30 January from the Kolkata Police after it had ordered the Joint CP, Crime, Detective Department to put up a probe file.
“SI (Sub Inspector) Ranjit Yadav has submitted a detailed file and it transpires that the allegations towards the accused humans had been substantiated in the course of his inquiry. Considering the grievance, the statement of the complainant on oath and the document submitted united states of america202 CrPC. I locate that a prima facie case has been made out towards the accused individuals u.S.420/406/34 IPC. Cognizance of the aforesaid offence is taken in opposition to the accused folks,” the magistrate said in its order on 30 January.
The court also issued summons below Section 204 of Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to the accused people along with Nussrat.
“We paid Rs 5.Fifty five lakh to 7 Sense Infrastructure Pvt Ltd in 2014. We have been given documents, but we didn’t get our apartments. Many individuals started filing police lawsuits in 2022 and then we shaped our organization — Association for the Welfare of the Helpless Retired & Present Bank Employees Kolkata — and filed a case within the court for justice,” 70-12 months-vintage S. Lakhotia, an aggrieved home buyers, instructed ThePrint.
BJP chief Shanku Deb Panda, who observed the house consumers to the ED workplace, sought a probe by means of the primary company into the alleged financial fraud.
“We cannot proportion the reproduction of the complaint as we’ve submitted financial evidence, and don’t want it to be in the public area. But, we need the ED to probe this example without delay. We will protest if they don’t take in the problem,” Panda, a former TMC standard secretary, advised ThePrint.
The ED, up to now, has now not taken up the case for research.
