Kolkata Police chief Rajeev Kumar to be quizzed in Shillong today
Kolkata/New Delhi, Feb 9 (IBNS): Kolkata Police chief Rajeev Kumar will appear before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for questioning in connection with its ongoing Supreme Court mandated probe into chit fund scams on Saturday, officials said.
The questioning of the top cop will take place in Shillong as directed by the Supreme Court following a protest dharna by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee against CBI attempt to interrogate him in Kolkata in the chit fund scams.
"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.
Earlier, the Supreme Court had ordered 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.
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee sat on a dharna (sit-in protest) for over 40 hours in Kolkata to protest against CBI action against Kumar.
Commencing on Sunday, Banerjee ended her sit-in protest on Tuesday.
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