CBI officers were detained by police outside Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar’s house in Salt Lake area of Kolkata. Officials said a team of CBI who were probing chit fund scam cases had reached Rajeev Kumar’s residence.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has also reached Rajeev Kumar’s house.
The CBI has been trying to locate Rajeev Kumar to question him in connection with Rose Valley and Saradha ponzi scams.
Earlier today, Mamata Banerjee said that the highest levels of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership were doing the worst kind of political vendetta. She said this in regard to the CBI trying to locate Rajeev Kumar to question him in connection with the Rose Valley and Saradha ponzi scams.
West Bengal: Police detains the CBI team which had reached the residence of Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar. The team has now been taken to a police station. pic.twitter.com/YXJJ3d11LL
— ANI (@ANI) February 3, 2019
The IPS officer, who led a Special Investigation Team of West Bengal Police probing the scams, has to be questioned regarding missing documents and files but he is not responding to notices to appear before the agency, officials said.
Kumar, a 1989 batch IPS officer of West Bengal cadre, did not even attend a meeting with Election Commission officials who had gone to Kolkata to meet him regarding election preparedness, sources said.
When contacted, his staff claimed Kumar had come to office on Friday but had left.
“There is very little chance that he will come to office now. You can try on Monday or call his residence,” his office staff told PTI over phone.
The number of his residence given by his staff did not ring and the calls made to his mobile number remained unanswered.
The officials said Kumar apparently became apprehensive of his arrest after Bengali film producer Shrikant Mohita was taken into custody.
According to some eyewitness accounts, Kumar was spotted in a book fair some days back.
The Rose Valley scam is worth over Rs 15,000 crore and Saradha scam is about Rs 2500 crore. In both cases, the perpetrators allegedly have links with the members of the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, they said.