New Delhi: The Supreme Court sought Friday reply form telecom giants Vodafone and AirTel on a plea by the CBI alleging that they were not cooperating with the investigation in the Saradha chit fund case. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi listed the agency’s plea April 8 after the mobile service providers denied the allegations.
A bench also comprising Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna was told by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta appearing for the CBI that there was complete lawlessness and anarchy in West Bengal. He said recently the police tried to arrest a customs officer for checking the baggage of wife of a TMC leader at the international airport in Kolkata. He said the complete incident has been recorded on CCTV.
The agency had recently filed a status report relating to the interrogation of the then Kolkata Police commissioner Rajeev Kumar in connection with the scam. The apex court had March 26 termed as ‘very very serious’ the revelations made by the CBI in its status report relating to interrogation of Kumar.
The top court was hearing CBI’s contempt application against various senior officials of the West Bengal government on the ground of non-cooperation in its probe and alleged tampering of evidence, including call data records (CDRs) of key accused and Saradha group CMD Sudipta Sen and Debjani Mukherjee.
PTI