Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar reached Meghalaya capital Shillong on Friday to appear before the CBI in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam on Saturday.
A senior Meghalaya police officer said Mr. Kumar flew from Kolkata to Shillong, where he checked into a heritage hotel on a property belonging to the Tripura royal family.
A CBI team and at least three West Bengal cadre IPS officers were learnt to have accompanied him to Shillong.
A political drama unfolded in Kolkata on Sunday evening after a CBI team went to question Mr. Kumar. It led to a face-off between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central government.
The CBI filed a contempt plea in the Supreme Court, which barred the agency’s sleuths from arresting Mr. Kumar but asked him to appear before the CBI at a neutral venue, Shillong in this case.
Meghalaya Director General of Police R. Chandranathan was tight-lipped about where the Kolkata Police Commissioner would be interrogated. “The CBI office near Police Bazaar in Shillong could be an option along with set-ups of the police and paramilitary forces,” said a police officer, declining to be quoted.