Saradha scam: CBI files plea in SC to arrest and interrogate ex-Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar
The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a fresh plea in the Supreme Court, seeking an arrest of former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar and also demanded to conduct a custodial interrogation of the top cop in the Saradha chit fund scam.
The CBI has told the apex court that a lot of evidence in the case has gone missing and as Rajeev was heading the Special Investigation Team to look into the case, he must be arrested for further questioning .
CBI files fresh plea in Supreme Court seeking permission to arrest, and for custodial interrogation of ex-Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar. CBI wants top court to withdraw its February 5 order granting protection to Rajeev Kumar from arrest. pic.twitter.com/3kxwFdxs0v
— ANI (@ANI) April 6, 2019
News agency ANI tweeted over the issue, “CBI files fresh plea in Supreme Court seeking permission to arrest, and for custodial interrogation of ex-Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar. CBI wants top court to withdraw its February 5 order granting protection to Rajeev Kumar from arrest.”
Earlier, in a controversy over power politics reigning in Kolkata, the CBI had earlier tried to investigate the Kolkata's Police Commissioner Rajeev and post this,CM Mamata Banerjee had went on strike over Centre's "misuse" of CBI.
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First published: 6 April 2019, 14:04 IST