CBI recovers 1 of 2 mobiles of WB TMC MLA that he threw in pond during raid

When CBI was investigating TMC MLA Jiban Krishna Saha in teachers' recruitment scam, he reportedly snatched the two phones from the officials and threw those in a pond. One mobile phone was recovered and search is on for the other.

Murshidabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday recovered one of the two mobile phones of Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Jiban Krishna Saha, which he had thrown in a pond two days back during the raid. Search is on for the other mobile.

On Friday, the CBI raided the residence of the legislator from Murshidabad's Burwan in connection with the teachers' recruitment scam in the state school education department. During the raid, Saha reportedly snatched his two mobiles from CBI officials and threw those in a pond adjacent to his residence. Since then, the CBI has launched a search operation to recover those mobiles. Pumps were pressed into action for lifting out water from the pond and the agency also took help from the local people of the area. At around 7:30 am today, one mobile was recovered. The technical experts have reached the spot to retrieve data from the damaged phone. Saha is currently being interrogated by the CBI officials at his residence at Satkari Smriti Bhavan.

Earlier, on Saturday CBI recovered six bags from the forest behind Saha's residence. Sources said several mark sheets, hard disks, details of monetary transactions with people were recovered from those bags. Officials are hopeful of recovering the other mobile as well but they are apprehensive as to whether they would manage to retrieve all crucial information from the damaged phones. The phones may not have any software issues, but after being submerged in muddy water for several hours, there may be hardware problems, said an official. The entire area of the pond has been brought under a security cover and no person is allowed to go near it.