The CBI has issued a notice to the Trinamool Congress asking for a list of who bought West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's paintings and for what amount. The agency sent a notice to this effect to the TMC Bhavan in Kolkata today, reports Rediff.com's Indrani Roy from Kolkata.

This comes after a CBI's probe into the Saradha scam secured details from the income tax department on the purchase of one of Mamata Banerjee's paintings by Sudipta Sen, promoter of the now-bust chit fund company, for Rs 1.8 crore.

In 2011 Banerjee's collection of 95 paintings were sold out within three days and fetched crores.

The buyers include industrialist Harsh Neotia, Jay Mehta, co-owner of IPL franchisee Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), and Jagmohan Dalmiya, the president of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB).

Mamata had said (and we wholeheartedly agree) "I am not a painter. I am just a commoner, I don't know how to paint."