Send report to Dhaka: Modi govt to CBI

Indian home minister Rajnath Singh has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to send a detailed report on the Saradha money transfers to Bangladesh.

Home Ministry officials said CBI has been send 'as detailed a report as possible' on the issue.

"Nothing should be concealed from Bangladesh authorities because this involves their security," the CBI has been told.

The CBI says it is yet to prepare such a report, but will do so now that explicit instructions have been received.

CBI officials say they have received the inputs on the alleged Saradha money transfers from Bangladesh during Bangladesh foreign minister AH Mahmood Ali's visit to New Delhi.

"They are very useful for our investigations into the Saradha scam and we have pursued many of the leads they gave us. Now we will give them a detailed report.

"But the investigation is not yet over and some of the leads have not yet led to results," said one of the top CBI officials.

Bangladesh has alleged that Saradha chit fund company was used by a section of West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress to send money to Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh, so that the fundamentalists could pursue disruptive activities against the Hasina government.

They have named a Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP Ahmed Hassan Imran as the kingpin of these illicit money transfers.

But Trinamool Congress has defended Imran as 'innocent'.