Kolkata: The CBI moved Thursday a court here seeking an arrest warrant against former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in the Saradha chit fund scam case.
The agency claimed that the senior IPS officer has failed to appear before it for assisting in the chit fund scam probe despite notices being sent to him on multiple occasions.
Rajeev Kumar is not cooperating with it in the probe, the CBI lawyers said in the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM), Alipore, Subrata Mukherjee.
Lawyers representing Rajeev Kumar, who is currently the Additional DGP of West Bengal CID, told the court that he is a witness and not an accused and as such the court cannot issue an arrest warrant against him in the case.
Denying the charge that he was not cooperating with the probe, his lawyers claimed that Rajeev Kumar is not absconding and had informed the CBI that he would not be available September 1 to 25.
The Saradha chit fund case was registered at the Alipore court in South 24 Parganas district.
Meanwhile in a separate development, four CBI teams comprising three members each visited various places in the city here to try and find Rajeev Kumar who has been incommunicado since Monday. The CBI officials also conducted a search at a hotel in Central Kolkata and also visited the IPS mess situated at the outskirts of the city.
The CBI has also send a second letter to West Bengal DGP Veerendra wanting to know on which telephone number Rajeev Kumar can be contacted.
Agencies