Shillong: The CBI began questioning Saturday the Kolkata Police chief at the highly secured agency’s office here in connection with chit fund scam cases, officials said here.
Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar, his counsel Biswajit Deb and senior IPS officers Javed Shamim and Murlidhar Sharma arrived at the probe agency’s office at 11 am, they said. Kumar’s counsel and the two IPS officers were asked to leave the CBI office within 30 minutes, they said.
Sources said that during the initial exchange of pleasantries, Kumar requested the CBI officials to expedite the interrogation as quickly as possible as he has a very busy ‘work schedule’. CBI officials, however, have not given him any assurance on the matter.
Kumar is being interrogated at the highly secured CBI office at Oakland area in the Meghalaya capital where three senior CBI sleuths from Delhi reached, Friday.
The Supreme Court had directed Tuesday the Kolkata Police chief to appear before the CBI and ‘”faithfully’ cooperate in the investigation of cases arising out of the Saradha chit fund scam, while making it clear that he will not be arrested.
The CBI had alleged in the Supreme Court that Kumar, who was leading the SIT probe into Saradha chit fund scam, tampered with the electronic evidence and handed over documents to the agency, some of which were ‘doctored’.
PTI