New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought a response from former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar on the CBI’s plea seeking his arrest in the multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam.
A three-judge bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna granted a week’s time to Rajeev Kumar to file his reply to the CBI’s plea which also included a direction to recall the apex court’s earlier order directing that no coercive action be taken against him.
In its application CBI said that during the tenure of Rajeev Kumar as Bidhan Nagar Comm-issioner when he was also a part of the SIT looking after day-to-day functioning, “He by his inaction or otherwise facilitated Saradha Group to illegally operate and further collect Rs 805.77 crore during 2012-13, and Rose Valley group to illegally operate and collect Rs 6865.85 Crore during 2012-14.”
The CBI said that even after Kumar appeared for questioning before the CBI officials in terms of the Supreme Court order, he remained elusive and evaded all pertinent questions.
