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Saradha Scam: Rajeev Kumar skips CBI summon

Saradha Scam: Rajeev Kumar skips CBI summon

| @indiablooms | 27 May 2019, 02:21 pm

Kolkata, May 27 (UNI): Former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar on Monday skipped the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) summon in relation to the Saradha chit fund scam.

The CBI had summoned him to the CGO complex at 10am this morning.

Mr Kumar dashed off a letter to the CBI, seeking some more time to appear before the investigating agency.

Earlier, the CBI issued a lookout notice against Kumar, accused of suppressing facts and walloping vital documents while he was investigating the Ponzi scam in 2013-14.

The lookout notice meant the IPS officer will be handed over to the central investigating agency whenever he is found at airport or on land or at port across India.

The CBI sources with knowledge in the matter said the lookout notice was issued after Mr Kumar failed to get any anticipatory bail against his possible arrest in relation to the case.

He was removed as ADG CID of Bengal by the Election Commission of India after violence broke out during BJP president Amit Shah’s rally at College Street in north Kolkata, four days before May 19, the last phase election here.

IPS officer Rajeev Kumar is now attached to the Union home ministry in New Delhi.

The apex court this month withdrew his immunity from arrest in the case.

Kumar's counsels also made several unsuccessful attempts to get an anticipatory bail for him in some courts in West Bengal.

 

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