LOOKOUT NOTICE FOR KOLKATA COP
New Delhi/Kolkata, May 26: The CBI has summoned former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar on Monday for questioning in connection with the Saradha ponzi scheme case, officials said. The Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI’s) move came shortly after the West Bengal government reinstated Kumar as the additional director general of the CID.
A four-member CBI team visited Kumar’s official residence in Kolkata on Sunday evening to serve the notice after repeated efforts to contact him over phone failed, officials said.
The CBI on Sunday issued a lookout notice against former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar, whose custodial interrogation it sought in connection with the multi-crore Saradha scam, to prevent him from leaving the country.
Meanwhile, the agency has asked Mr Kumar to appear before it at its Kolkata office on Monday for questioning in connection with the case. A team of CBI officials visited Mr Kumar’s house in Kolkata on Sunday to serve him the summons.
Sources in the CBI said all airports and immigration authorities have been alerted by it to prevent him from leaving the country and intimate the agency on any possible move. The agency wants interrogation of Mr Kumar in connection with `2,500 crore Saradha ponzi scam as he was heading the Special Investigation Team of West Bengal police to probe the case before CBI took ove.
Earlier, the CBI had told the Supreme Court that custodial interrogation of Mr Kumar was necessary as he was not co-operating with the probe and he was ‘evasive’ and ‘arrogant’ in answering queries put to him during his questioning. Solicitor general Tushar Mehta, who was appearing for the CBI had said Mr Kumar was the incharge of investigation by the SIT and had allowed the release of mobile phones and laptops, containing crucial records of alleged involvement of