The marathon meetings between Kolkata Police commissioner Rajeev Kumar and officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that continued for five days since Saturday in Shillong, ended today. For each of these days, the CBI has sought information from Kumar on the Saradha chit fund scam and the Rose Valley case for approximately seven to eight hours. He is slated to return to Kolkata later during the day.
Former Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh was among those taken to the CBI office in Shillong for sharing information in the case.
According to sources, the entire sessions of the past five days have been recorded on video, a step Kumar had himself suggested. He had reached Shillong on Friday, and the meeting with CBI officers started on Saturday.
The meetings took place following the Supreme Court directive that Kumar cannot be arrested and asking him to cooperate with the probe and to meet the CBI officers at a ‘neutral’ location as requested by him.
There has been an unprecedented face-off between the Centre and the Bengal government over the investigation into the Saradha chit fund scam as things reached a flashpoint a couple of weeks back when CBI officers landed outside Kumar’s residence apparently to conduct a “secret” operation.
