In 2011, the number of pending cases with the CBI was 2,300, with 458 of them in Bengal alone, they noted.
"The numbers must have gone up in the last three years. So many pending cases only implies that the credibility of CBI is at stake. Why are so many cases pending?"
They said while the state government arrested the scam kingpin Sudipto Sen and appointed a judicial commission that has already compensated four lakh investors, the legislation sent by the Mamata Banerjee regime to the central government on the chit fund issue was still pending.