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CBI begins interrogating Kolkata Police chief in chit fund scams

Rajeev Kumar is being interrogated by the CBI days after West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee held a three-day dharna in protest to the CBI action.

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Shillong: The CBI began questioning the Kolkata Police chief on Saturday at highly secured agency’s office here in connection with chit fund scam cases, officials said.

Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar, his counsel Biswajit Deb and senior IPS officers Javed Shamim and Murlidhar Sharma arrived at the probe agency’s office at 11 am, they said.

Kumar’s counsel and the two IPS officers were asked to leave the CBI office within 30 minutes, they said.

Kumar is being interrogated at the highly secured CBI office at Oakland area in the Meghalaya capital where three senior CBI sleuths from Delhi reached on Friday.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday had directed the Kolkata Police chief to appear before the CBI and “faithfully” cooperate in the investigation of cases arising out of the Saradha chit fund scam, while making it clear that he will not be arrested.


Also read: How Mamata Banerjee leveraged the CBI-police ruckus into a ‘political victory’


The CBI had alleged in the Supreme Court that Kumar, who was leading the SIT probe into Saradha chit fund scam, tampered with the electronic evidence and handed over documents to the agency, some of which were “doctored”.

The apex court directed him to appear before the investigating agency at a neutral place in Shillong “to avoid all unnecessary controversy”.

CBI officials had gone to Kumar’s residence in Kolkata to question him on January 3 but their attempt was thwarted by the police, following which Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee staged a three-day dharna.

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2 COMMENTS

  1. What is this? A person who left the Service on his own was reinstated after 9 months which is illegal and against the Service Rules. It’s mockery of systems in Police Force. And then we expect the Police to discharge their duties well!

    • In Gujarat IPS officers who are released on bail from the jail are reinstated in their services & later on promoted. In actual an IPS officer or any govt.employee released on bail has to 1st.fight his court case if he loses the case he goes to jail & if he wins then taken back into the services paid all his due arrears but things are happening otherwise nowadays. Services have lost their past moral

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