CBI interrogation with Kolkata CP Rajeev Kumar ends for today, will be quizzed again tomorrow
Shillong, Feb 9 (IBNS): After completing a marathon eight-hour-long interrogation over his alleged role in destroying and tampering evidences in Saradha chit fund scam, Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar on Saturday late evening left the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)'s Shillong office.
Sources in the Central probe agency said that the Kolkata top cop has been asked to appear before the investigators again on Sunday morning.
Responding to a summon of the CBI, Rajeev Kumar along with his counsel and two senior officials of Kolkata Police Force, Javed Shamim and Murli Dhar Sharma, reached CBI office in Shillong's posh Oakland area at around 10:50 am. and investigators had started quizzing him from 11:30 am.
The Kolkata Police chief came out of the CBI office around 7:15 pm. went to Tripura Castle bungalow, where he has been staying since Friday evening.
Meanwhile, journalist-turned former TMC Rajya Sabha MP, Kunal Ghosh. has already reached Shillong and he will be interrogated in connection with the same case on Sunday.
CBI sources said that there is possibility that Ghosh and Kumar will be quizzed jointly.
After getting Supreme Court's nod to question Rajeev Kumar in chit fund probe, CBI on Thursday sent a fresh notice to the senior IPS officer asking him to appear before its investigators at Shillong office on Saturday.
Earlier on Sunday, a face-off between the Kolkata Police and CBI began after the premier investigation agency's officers went to Rajeev Kumar's bungalow in south Kolkata's Loudon Street area as the CP skipped three previous summons and city cops manhandled CBI investigators and forcibly detained them.
Following the incident, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sat on a two-day 'political' dharna (sit-in-demonstration) and other leaders of the opposition-alliance either joined the dharna or expressed their support over phone.
Later, CBI went to the Supreme Court to get order to interrogate Rajeev Kumar and the apex court had directed the Kolkata commissioner to cooperate with the CBI and to appear before it in Shillong.
A three-justice bench of the Supreme Court also directed the CBI that it could not arrest Rajeev Kumar immediately.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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