CBI to quiz Kolkata CP Rajeev Kumar in Shillong on Feb 9

According to sources, besides constituting a special team, the Central probe agency is currently preparing a questionnaire to interrogate the Kolkata top cop.

"A 20-member CBI team, comprising of one SP, three ASPs, three DSPs and three inspector rank officials, will be deployed to Shillong from Delhi to interrogate Rajeev Kumar in connection with chit fund probe on Feb 9," a CBI official told IBNS.

"The special team is likely to visit CBI's Kolkata office on Friday and then they will fly to Shillong along with the agency's Joint Director Pankaj Kumar Srivastava and a DSP from Kolkata, Tathagata Bardhan," the official added.

However, no reaction from Kolkata CP Rajeev Kumar or his office has been received so far regarding the CBI summon.

Earlier, the Supreme Court had ordered that Rajeev Kumar to appear before the CBI in the Sarada chit fund scam case, media reports said.

The court had said no coercive action would be taken against Kumar.

Meanwhile, the agency has also summoned journalist turned former TMC Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh in connection with the same case.

"Kunal Ghosh has been asked to appear before CBI sleuths in Shillong on Sunday," a source in the premier probe agency said.

Kunal Ghosh said that he had accepted the CBI notice and he will appear at CBI office in Shillong on Sunday (Feb 10).

"As the court had granted me bail with a condition that I have to cooperate with CBI in the investigation and I will do so, I will be present at CBI's Shillong office on Sunday as directed," Ghosh told IBNS.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)