Former special director of Intelligence Bureau, Dhanesh Chandra Nath said, We all know who this man is. It is unfortunate that West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee sent Ahmed Hassan alias Imran to the Rajya Sabha despite knowing his antecedents. When SIMI was banned in 2001, Mamata Banerjee was a Union minister and she should have known about its leader’s activities in West Bengal. What is of serious concern to us is the planned infiltration of the known subversive elements into the most sacred and highest corridors of power. Nath, who was earlier joint director at SIB in Kolkata for six years, revealed that Ahmed Hassan during his days at Aligarh Muslim University came in touch with SIMI and was given charge of West Bengal and he was also Amir-e-Halka for Jamaat-e-Islami Hind for eastern region of the country. In 1981, Ahmed Hassan started a Bengali magazine Kalam from 19, Dargah Road but later in 1998 shifted to another address on 45, Elliot Road. The Dargah Road office then became a guest house for SIMI. Intelligence agencies have reports of SIMI’s link with Islamic Development Bank, which is headquartered in Abu Dhabi, said the report. There are reports that Ahmed Hassan was the key man for IDB in eastern India while managing director of IDB, a son of Jamaat president Ghulam Azam, is his close friend, the report added. After turning Kalam into a daily and having come in contact with Sen, he sold the newspaper to the Saradha group, but remained editor. Hassan was introduced to Sen by suspended TMC Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh, who was a journalist and media advisor to the Saradha group, and now in jail. During the function of the newly launched paper Dainik Kalam Mamata Banerjee attended the inauguration and heaped praises about its journalistic ethics. The ED served two notices to Ahmed Hassan to question him about his financial transactions with Saradha group. He ignored the two notices saying he was “busy with the Lok Sabha elections being a TMC Rajya Sabha MP”. But now the ED in a strongly worded summon has directed him to report to its office by Monday, failing which strong action would be initiated against him. We have concrete evidence against him. He was in charge of a Bengali daily financed by Saradha and was involved in financial transactions. If he doesn’t respond, we will move court and seek permission to arrest him, said an ED officer. When contacted, Ahmed Hassan denied receiving any notice. I am yet to receive any notice but am willing to cooperate with the investigation, he said.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 00:15:59 +0000
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