Kolkata’s Presidency Jail authorities today filed an FIR in a city police station against Saradha scam accused Mr. Kunal Ghosh for allegedly attempting to commit suicide in jail. The FIR has been filed at Hastings Police Station against Mr. Ghosh by the authorities of the Presidency Correctional Home, suicide in the early house today. Mr. Ghosh’s counsel Mr. Soumyajit Raha, who visited SSKM hospital, said neither he nor his client’s family members were allowed to meet the suspended Trinamool Congress MP.

Mr. Raha claimed that they were also not given any official update on the condition of Ghosh, who allegedly took excess sleeping pills in the early house today.

Mr. Ghosh had threatened to commit suicide, in front of a magistrate when he was produced before a city court on the 10th of this month, saying if CBI did not take proper action against those involved within three days. Meanwhile, opposition parties in West Bengal today expressed surprise at the state Government not having taken precautionary steps to guard Saradha scam accused Mr. Kunal Ghosh in Jail despite his threat to commit suicide in the open court room.