Kolkata, September 21
In yet another setback to former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar, the Alipore District and Sessions court on Saturday rejected his anticipatory bail plea after the CBI said he was breaking the law by evading its summons in the Saradha chit-fund case.
Kumar, who is the Additional Director General of the CID, had filed the bail plea in the court on Friday, a day after a city court said that the CBI does not need a warrant to arrest him. District session judge in-charge Sujoy Sengupta rejected Kumar’s plea on Saturday, though the IPS officer's counsel contended that his name was not in the chargesheets filed by the CBI.
Opposing the bail plea of Kumar, an erstwhile police commissioner of Bidhannagar Police Commisionerate, CBI counsel KC Mishra said he had headed the SIT formed by the Bengal Government in 2013 and had taken several decisions in the Saradha scam probe.
“There are multiple points and we have opposed the bail plea considering the social ramifications and the importance of the case as directed by the Supreme Court,” he said.
The CBI counsel said Kumar was breaking the law as he is evading summons of the investigation agency after the Calcutta HC withdrew protection granted to him from arrest last week. . Kumar's counsel Gopal Haldar pleaded that Kumar did not head the SIT but was mere a member of 13-member team. — PTI
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