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Suspended TMC MP Kunal Ghosh attempts suicide, out of danger

Superintendent of Presidency Correctional home, jail doctor and on duty staff were suspended

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When Kunal Ghosh, a key accused in the Saradha ponzi scheme scam and suspended Trinamool Congress MP now behind bars, threatened suicide on Monday nobody quite took him seriously.

Ghosh has been demanding that real culprits behind the siphoning of the Saradha scam money (read key leaders of Trinamool including Mamata Banerjee) should be arrested and alleged that he is being made a scapegoat by the West Bengal government so that others could get away.

A flamboyant journalist and Mamata Banerjee's trusted lieutenant till the multi-crore scam got busted, Kunal, has been hogging TV news footage and morning papers with unfailing regularity with his theatrics and allegations. And his threat this time too was taken with the usual snigger, till he made good his promise by consuming Alzolam sleeping pill in his cell at Presidency correctional home during early Friday morning.

Hoping that he would die, Ghosh even wrote a suicide note. Then at around 4 am, jail security guards entered into his room and took him to SSKM Hospital where he was admitted to the critical care unit.

The trail of events however raised questions on how serious Kunal's attempt was to take his own life and whether it was another of his gimmicks.

Haider Aziz Safi, minister for correctional administration and state chief minister Mamata Banerjee made statements in the Assembly that Kunal was not in a critical condition and he in fact walked up to the ambulance and he even told the doctors he had consumed the pills.

While he claimed in his suicide note that he had gulped down more than 50 pills, only an empty strip containing 10 tablets was recovered from his cell. However till late evening Kunal was kept at the CCU with oxygen support.

The development, nonetheless has resulted in major embarrassment for the Mamata Banerjee government still smarting under the humiliation of being denied the right to investigate the scam, the responsibility of which is now with the Central Bureau of Investigation.

Why Kunal was allowed to continue with his daily dose of sleeping pills even after threatening suicide was a question no one in the administration could answer.

Aziz Safi's reasoning that Kunal was in fact storing the tablets and not consuming them found few takers.

In a damage control mode, the state government was quick to react with the chief minister declaring that a committee under Home secretary Basudeb Banerjee would probe the incident.

Pending completion of the inquiry, the superintendent of Presidency Correctional Home, Nabin Saha and jail medical officer Gautam Dasgupta would remain suspended.

Late evening Mamata also removed Safi for failing to beef up security at the prison.

Ever since he got arrested, Ghosh, who was group editor of Saradha's all publications, has been a constant nuisance for Mamata Banerjee.

Never getting tired of alleging that all key Trinamool leaders were hand-in-glove with scam kingpin Sudipta Sen with Mamata being the key beneficiary, Kunal's patience snapped when the first charge sheet of CBI only named those already arrested like Sen, Kunal and few other who are considered to be mostly fixers setting contacts between the Saradha boss and the netas or other businessmen.

Kunal's clumsy suicide attempt has brought to front the questions he has been asking for long including the impartiality of CBI's investigations.

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