Suspended Trinamool MP Kunal Ghosh being taken for a CT scan after an alleged suicide attempt. (Press Trust of India)
Suspended Trinamool Congress MP and Saradha scam accused Kunal Ghosh, who allegedly tried to commit suicide and was admitted to state-run SSKM Hospital, was today discharged and taken back to the jail.
Police sources said that the process of Mr Ghosh's transfer back to the Presidency jail was done amid tight security and in close coordination with the hospital authorities and security personnel.
Neither the hospital authorities, nor jail officials were available for comment.
On Friday, Mr Ghosh allegedly tried to commit suicide by consuming sleeping pills in the jail, following which the jail superintendent, a doctor and a staff-on-duty were suspended.
Presidency Correctional Home authorities had filed an FIR at the Hastings Police Station against Mr Ghosh for allegedly attempting to commit suicide.
Mr Ghosh, who was the chief of the Saradha Group's media operations, has named top Trinamool leaders as beneficiaries of the chit fund group but has been discredited by his party.
On Monday, he had threatened in court that he will take his own life if the "real beneficiaries" of the chit fund scam were not arrested.
Mr Ghosh was the only Trinamool leader named in the Central Bureau of Investigation's first charge sheet in the Saradha case.
The Saradha Group operated a Ponzi scheme offering massive returns of 40 per cent and more until it collapsed last year, leaving lakhs of small investors bankrupt in West Bengal and Odisha.
Mr Ghosh has often suggested that the CBI should question his party chief Mamata Banerjee along with him. The Left alleged a conspiracy.