Kolkata, Feb 13 (IBNS): After facing a marathon 36-hour CBI interrogation over five consecutive days in Shillong, Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar on Wednesday evening returned to the West Bengal capital.
Responding to a summon by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Kolkata top cop Rajeev Kumar reached Shillong on Friday and was questioned by the central probe agency's sleuths for last five days (nearly 36 hours) since Saturday regarding his alleged role in destroying and tampering with evidences in two major chit fund scam cases of West Bengal.
The CBI also interrogated journalist and former TMC Lok Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh jointly with Kumar on Sunday and Monday in connection with the same case.
Sources in the CBI said that Rajeev Kumar and Kunal Ghosh would be called again for interrogation in Shillong if required.
On Feb 3 (Sunday), a face-off between the Kolkata Police and CBI began after the central investigation agency officers went to Rajeev Kumar's bungalow in south Kolkata's Loudon Street after the CP skipped three previous summons. Local police personnel manhandled the CBI investigators and forcibly detained them.
Following the incident, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sat on a two-day dharna (sit-in-demonstration). Several Opposition leaders at the national level extended their support to Mamata.
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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