Police Chief, ex-TMC MP face-to-face

The CBI made Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar and former TMC MP Kunal Ghosh sit face-to-face at the probe agency's office in connection with the interrogation in the chit fund scams, officials said. Each of them were questioned separately in the initial period, an official said.

Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar was interrogated by the CBI for a second day here on Sunday in connection with the chit fund scams, an official said.

The probe agency may confront Kumar with former Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh who has also been summoned to the CBI office here in Oakland, in connection with the Rose Valley and Saradha chit fund scams, the official told IANS on the condition of anonymity

Ghosh, who was arrested in November 2013 was granted interim bail by the Calcutta High Court in 2016, arrived at the office at 10 a.m, while Kumar reached half an hour later.

"Our investigation team will interrogate both of them," the official said.

On Saturday, the CBI interrogated Kumar for eight hours for "withholding and tampering important documents" in the scams.