Kolkata police chief grilled for 11 hrs, to face CBI again
Shillong, Feb.
12: Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar will have to appear before the CBI for the fifth consecutive day on Wednesday for questioning in connection with chit fund scam cases, officials said.
Kumar, who in being examined since Saturday, left the CBI office at around 9.45 pm on Tuesday after a marathon grilling session of over 11 hours.
He had arrived shortly before 10.30 am at the CBI office here. “Kumar is being questioned in connection with his role in the alleged tampering of evidence in the Saradha scam. He has been asked to appear again tomorrow,” an official said. During the day, an unidentified masked man was called in the afternoon at the CBI office. The man came out shortly after Kumar left the premises, leaving a lot of speculation among mediapersons about his identity.
Investigation officers of both Saradha chit fund scam and Rose Valley scam were also present in the marathon 11- hour questioning on Tuesday, the official said. Kumar was examined along with former TMC MP Kunal Ghosh for the past two days.
The ex- MP was arrested in 2013 in the Saradha scam and has been out on bail since 2016.
The questioning of Ghosh is over for the time being and he was allowed to return to Kolkata, a CBI official said.
The Kolkata police chief had already spent over 24 hours in the past three days inside the highly secured CBI office here, facing questions relating to Saradha and Rose Valley chit fund scam cases.