Kolkata: The West Bengal CID questioned BJP Rajya Sabha MP Roopa Ganguly on Saturday in connection with a child trafficking case in Jalpaiguri.
A team of the agency’s officers went to Ganguly’s south Kolkata residence and questioned her for over two hours on her alleged meeting with former BJP women’s wing general secretary Juhi Chowdhury, an accused in the case who is under arrest, a senior CID officer said.
The criminal investigation department (CID) had unearthed a child trafficking racket earlier this year in which babies and children were allegedly sold, some even to foreigners through illegal adoption deals.
Another senior officer of the agency said that the CID officers who went to interrogate Ganguly were “not satisfied” with her replies and were mulling to question her again.
“Our officers are not satisfied with what she has answered. They may question her again sometime next week,” he said.
“They wanted to ask some questions to solve the case and understand the situation. I told them what I knew. There is no charge against me. It is a political vendetta. I am saying this from day one. They are
wasting my time,” Ganguly later told reporters,
Alleging that false cases were slapped against the BJP workers in the state, the Rajya Sabha MP said she believed that Chowdhury was not guilty.
The CID had also summoned BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and two other leaders for interrogation in the same case.
The probe agency had arrested several people, including the head of a child protection agency in Darjeeling and a member of a child welfare committee, on charges of child trafficking.
Those arrests were part of a widening probe into the adoption racket at Bimala Shishu Griho, a children's home in Jalpaiguri town.
Chowdhury and the chief adoption officer of the Children’s home, Sonali Mondal, the home's chairperson
Chandana Chakraborty and her brother Manas Bhowmik were arrested earlier.
They have been charged with selling about 17 children, aged between one and 14 years, to foreigners while falsely claiming that the children were handed over for legal adoption to needy couples after due screening and official procedures.
The CID had unearthed the child trafficking racket during raids at homes and nursing homes in the Baduria area of North 24 Parganas district, in Behala in the southern fringes of Kolkata and some other parts of south Bengal in November last year.
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