In an unprecedented turn of events , the CBI team consisting of five persons who were at Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar’s house in Salt Lake area have been arrested by Kolkata Police.
Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim, all senior police officers of the state including director general of police, ADG (law and order), joint commissioner of Kolkata police rushed to Kumar’s south Kolkata residence on Loudon Street and held an emergency meeting.
Policemen forced the CBI officers including Tathagata Bardhan, deputy superintendent who led the team, into vehicles and took them to Shakespeare police station after more than half an hour of altercation that eventually turned into minor scuffles between the cops and the CBI sleuths.
At 8:40 pm, under instruction from Mamata Banerjee, the CBI officers were allowed to walk out of the Shakespeare Sarani police station where they were detained.
In Delhi, ANI quoted Interim CBI chief M Nageshwar Rao as saying, “We are contacting our senior law officers about the Kolkata incident. Whatever they suggest will be followed.”
Police teams were also sent outside the Central Government Office complex in Salt Lake where the CBI and ED have their offices. A police team was also dispatched at Nizam Palace, another office of CBI officers.