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KOLKATA: The CBI on Monday named Nalini Chidambaram , the wife of former finance minister P Chidambaram , in the sixth supplementary chargesheet filed in the Saradha scam on Monday.Nalini was named neither as witness nor accused, but as one privy to certain information on the controversial channel deal. The CBI said it might look into the information she was privy to “at a later stage”.“She was a lawyer of Manoranjana Singh , one of the accused in the Saradha case. Her name came up as her fee had been paid from Saradha money,” said a CBI officer on Monday.Nalini’s name first cropped up in the purported letter from Saradha boss Sudipta Sen to CBI in April 2013, where it was claimed that she had been paid from Saradha accounts.According to an SFIO report on the Saradha muddle, Nalini was the sole arbitrator of the deal signed between Sudipta and Saradha group on June 21, 2010. The report claims that she was “seemingly” paid for her professional services as lawyer.Sources say that during questioning, Manoranjana claimed that the MoU and agreement between Saradha and GNN India were drafted by NC Associates in Chennai as Nalini was looking after her corporate affairs. The Saradha boss had earlier claimed before investigators that the deal was drafted in favour of Manoranjana.There have been questions about how much Nalini was paid but no CBI officer would comment on it. The case is being probed by three central investigating agencies: CBI, ED and SFIO. Banking details with the investigators reportedly reveal that Nalini was paid Rs 65.85 lakh between June 2010 and September 2012. But the TDS filed by the Saradha group shows a payment of Rs 1.5 crore to her from March-June 2011. A TDS of Rs 15 lakh was deducted from that, say sources.What has surprised investigators is the number of emails Sudipta sent to Nalini to try and establish his credibility. In an email on October 2011, Sudipta tells Nalini that he “had not done due diligence of the company (GNN India) beforehand”.He believed Nalini’s “presence, her name and her fame in the world” had given them the “confirmation that everything will be correctly executed”. The Saradha boss had told her that a Trinamool Congress MP and Saradha vice-president Somnath Dutta could give her “an appraisal report” of the company.According to sources, Manoranjana started getting sceptical about Saradha’s background and expressed her misgivings to Nalini. In an email in September 2011, Manoranjana reportedly told Nalini that many of Sudipta’s “clandestine and dubious” operations were under the investigation of RBI, Sebi and CID in Kolkata and Assam.Notices from ED and income tax department had become ‘a part of his life’, she wrote, reportedly telling Nalini that “no business of Sudipta Sen makes money” and that he “loses money in each one of them”.The chargesheet details the role of Manoranjana and Santanu Ghosh — both of whom are in custody — in the Saradha muddle.