JUDGMENT :

T.S. Thakur, J.

Leave granted.

2. In Subrata Chattoraj v. Union of India & Ors. (2014) 8 SCC 768 this Court directed transfer of cases registered in different police stations in the State of West Bengal against Saradha Group of Companies and all such cases registered against any other company to the Central Bureau of Investigation for a fair and credible investigation including investigation if necessary into the larger conspiracy angle and the money trail involved in the commission of the offences. By the same order we had allowed Writ Petition © No. 413 of 2013 and Writ Petition © No. 324 of 2014 and directed transfer of cases registered against 44 other chit fund companies for a similar investigation. The cases involving chit fund deposits across several States in the eastern part of the country involved several companies, and a scam that was estimated to be over 20,00,00,000/- (Rupees twenty thousand crores) at the relevant point of time. As many as 25 lakhs claims were said to have been lodged by the depositors before the Commissions of