Ghosh hits out at TMC, media for maligning BJP

West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh today hit out at the Trinamool Congress government in the state and a section of the media for trying to tarnish the party's image in the child trafficking case .
He also accused CID of trying to frame BJP leaders in the child trafficking case and arresting party leader Juhi Chowdhury for her alleged involvement in child trafficking case.
"I really have a doubt about the wisdom of the media and CID. The prime accused Chandana Chakraborty was arrested and on the basis of her version our party leader Juhi Chowdhury too was arrested by CID and the entire media is shouting slogans against BJP," Ghosh said here.

Chowdhury, the general secretary of BJP state Mahila Morcha, was arrested by CID last week for her alleged involvement in the child trafficking case. The BJP state unit on Tuesday had removed Juhi from all party posts till the investigation is over and she comes out clean.
"A section of media is busy dancing to TMC's tune. The TMC government in order to save their own leaders are trying to frame BJP leaders in false cases. But media should remember that we are not in politics because of them," Ghosh said.
CID has arrested seven persons in the case so far. Jalpaiguri District Child Protection Officer Sasmita Ghosh was arrested today and her husband Mrinal Ghosh, the Darjeeling district child protection officer, had been arrested in connection with the case on Friday night.

The others arrested in this case are Debasish Chandra, a member of the district Child Welfare Committee, besides Chowdhury. Also arrested were Sonali Mondal and Chandana Chakraborty, the chief adoption officer and chairperson of NGO Bimala Shishu Griho, a children's home in Jalpaiguri town which is in the centre of the child trafficking racket.

Chakraborty's brother Manas Bhowmik was also arrested.
Mondal, Chakraborty and Bhowmik were charged with selling about 17 children, aged between one and 14 years, to foreigners by entering into shady adoption deals.
The CID had unearthed the child trafficking racket during raids at homes and nursing homes in Baduria area of North 24 Parganas district, in Behala in the southern fringes of Kolkata and some other parts of south Bengal in November last year.