SHILLONG: The CBI is likely to seek the Supreme Court’s permission to question Saradha group chairman Sudipta Sen and his close aide, Debjani Mukherjee in the Saradha chit fund scam.
Sources revealed that the CBI is likely to serve notices to both Sen and Mukherjee and bring them to Shillong for interrogation.
According to sources, the CBI wanted to question the two alongside Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar.
Sources further informed that the CBI is likely to continue questioning Kolkata police commissioner for the next three days.
According to sources, Kumar denied the allegations that he had tampered with the evidences in connection with the multi-crore scam.
Meanwhile, former Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kunal Ghosh, who was jointly questioned with Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar by the CBI in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam, wrote to the probe agency on Tuesday, accusing the top police officer of tampering with the new evidence that has emerged in the case in Shillong.
The CBI has been interrogating Kumar since Saturday.
Ghosh, whose two-day questioning in Shillong ended on Monday, demanded that he should jointly be interrogated with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukul Roy as it might be helpful for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). “I have written a letter to the CBI, where I have categorically accused Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar of tampering with the evidence that has emerged in the chit fund case during the joint questioning with me in Shillong.
“Kumar is leaking whatever I had said during the joint interrogation with him (at Shillong) and is instructing his subordinate officers to tamper with that evidence. I have received information regarding it. I request the CBI to take immediate action so that the tampering of evidence is stopped,” Ghosh told PTI.
When contacted, Kolkata Police officials said they were yet to receive any query from the central probe agency.
“If we get any (query from CBI), we will answer it,” a senior Kolkata Police official said.
Ghosh claimed that several key persons were still out of the purview of the CBI investigation into the multi-crore-rupee scam. “I am always ready to cooperate with the CBI. I think I should be interrogated jointly with Mukul Roy. It will throw some light on the investigation,” he said. (With added inputs of PTI)
