CBI directs Kolkata Police Commissioner to appear at Shillong on 9 February

February 7: The Supreme Court said on Tuesday that the police commissioner of Kolkata, Rajeev Kumar, should appear before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Shillong, Meghalaya – a neutral place. Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi observed, “We direct the police commissioner to make himself available and fully cooperate. We will deal with contempt petition later.”

Following the direction of the Supreme Court, the CBI has asked the Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar to appear before the CBI court in Shillong, Meghalaya on February 9^th, 2019 for questioning in connection with the Saradha case. CBI filed the plea after its team was prevented from entering Kumar’s residence.

This came after the central investigative agency filed a plea in the apex court against the city police commissioner, alleging the destruction of electronic evidence related to the Saradha chit fund scam case. The three-judge Supreme Court bench comprising CJI Gogoi, Justice Deepak Gupta and Justice Sanjiv Khanna also observed that Kumar can’t be arrested at this point of time.

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