Summary:
In 2014, The Supreme Court ordered a probe into the multi-crore-rupee Saradha scam and transferred the case to CBI in 2014. This is the sixth charge sheet in the Saradha scam which was handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation by the Supreme Court in 2014. The group had generated Rs 2,500 crore from people luring with attracting interest rates which were not repaid. In a further blow to the Chidambaram family, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a charge sheet against Nalini Chidambaram, the wife of former Union finance minister P Chidambaram, alleging she had received Rs 1.4 crore from Saradha group of companies, embroiled in a chit fund scam. The charge sheet was filed in a special court in Kolkata, he said..