CBI issues summon to Kolkata police commissioner for questioning on February 9

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation has issued a summon to Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar asking him to appear before it for questioning on February 9 in Shillong.


The Supreme Court had directed Kumar to appear before CBI while restricting the agency from taking any coercive action.

CBI sources said they want to grill Kumar about the documents, pen drives, hard drives and statements of various persons which have not been provided by the West Bengal SIT into chit fund scams, headed by him before the probe was transferred to the central agency.

The agency has claimed that SIT deliberately hid or destroyed crucial evidence in the multi-crore Saradha and Rose Valley scams, in which several Trinamool Congress leaders are under the scanner.

CBI on Thursday also attached 10 officers from its Delhi, Bhopal and Lucknow units to its Kolkata office till February 20 to provide additional manpower during questioning of some high profile suspects, including Kumar.

A team of superintendent of police Jagroop S Gusinha from its special unit in New Delhi accompanied by additional SP V M Mittal, Surendra Kumar Malik, Chander Deep, Deputy SPs Atul Hajela, Alok Kumar Sahi and P K Srivastava, Inspectors Hari Shankar Chand, Ritesh Danhi and Surajit Das will camp in Kolkata, an official order said.

It said these officers will be temporarily attached to CBI, EO-IV, Kolkata. They have been asked to reach Kolkata by Friday and will be stationed tentatively up to February 20.

During the hearing in SC on Wednesday, the CBI had alleged total breakdown of constitutional machinery in the state by citing the incident of Sunday when the city police had taken into its custody around 25 personnel of the agency.

CBI had gone to Kumar's residence to probe him in chit fund cases.