In a dramatic turn of evens according to confirmed reports, Bhawanipore Police Station has sent notice to CBI Joint Director. It is in connection with a case of cheating amounting to Rs 45 lakh.
Bhawanipore PS has sent notice asking for CBI Joint Director to come for answering questions regarding the probe.
Admitting that he had received notice, Pankaj Shrivatsav said that he will take steps based on legal advice he receives. Soon after receiving notice, CBI joint director left Nizam Palace for Delhi.
West Bengal Governor K N Tripathi has submitted a report to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on the situation that unfolded in the city after a CBI team was allegedly obstructed by the police from questioning Kolkata Police chief Rajeev Kumar in the Saradha scam, Raj Bhavan sources said Monday.
In an unprecedented development, a number of CBI officers, who had gone to question Rajeev Kumar in connection with chit fund scam cases, were bundled into police jeeps, whisked to a police station and briefly detained on Sunday.
Hours after the incident, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee began a sit-in right in front of the Metro Cinema to protest “insults” she faced at the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah and claimed the CBI knocked on the doors of Kumar without a search warrant.
Tripathi had last night summoned the state chief secretary and state director general of police and asked them to take immediate action to resolve the situation.
Rajnath Singh had called up the governor to know the facts of the “unfortunate and unprecedented situation of CBI officers being manhandled, detained, intimidated and obstructed”, the officials said.
The home ministry on Sunday evening received information that CBI officers in Kolkata had experienced “intimidation and threat to personal safety in course of investigation into the Saradha scam being conducted under the directions of the Supreme Court”, they said.
The ministry has deployed central forces at the CBI office and residential premises of the probe agency officials in the state and it is now “closely monitoring the situation”, they said.
According to officials in Delhi, the Union Home Ministry will examine the role of some IPS officers in the alleged obstruction put up against a CBI team probing the Saradha ponzi scam in Kolkata and whether they violated the service conduct rules while preventing questioning of city police commissioner Rajeev Kumar.
The Union home ministry is the cadre-controlling authority of the Indian Police Service (IPS) officers in the country.
