Mamata aide Rajeev Kumar takes 21 day depart as SC more likely to hear case

Apprehensive because the Supreme Court is more likely to begin listening to CBI’s custodial interrogation plea in opposition to ex-Kolkata high cop, Rajeev Kumar, any time quickly, Mamata Banerjee’s shut aide has gone on a 21 day earned depart, experiences Times of India. For these unaware, Rajeev Kumar is identical cop for whom the TMC chief had damaged all conference and sat on a dharna to protect him in February 2019.
Paid depart or earned depart is the time allowed away from work for vacation, sickness, and many others. throughout which you obtain your regular wage.
According to the report by Times Now, Rajeev Kumar’s 21 earned depart started from March sixteenth, 2021. Kumar was the principal secretary, IT and electronics division of the state authorities when he proceeded to go on depart.

The CBI desires custodial interrogation of Rajeev Kumar, a 1989-batch IPS officer, within the multi-crore Saradha chit fund rip-off case. In 2019, the CBI had issued a lookout discover in opposition to Mamata’s shut aide, Rajeev Kumar, for his reference to the Saradha chit fund rip-off case to forestall him from leaving the nation. The Saradha rip-off broke out into the open in 2013 when a Ponzi scheme run by the Saradha Group, a consortium of over 200 non-public firms, collapsed after amassing tons of of crores from over 15 lakh traders.
In January 2019, the CBI had accused the West Bengal authorities of obstructing investigations into the rip-off, claiming that the federal government equipment has broken all of the proof. The then Police Commissioner and head of the SIT investigating case, Rajeev Kumar was additionally accused of destroying the proof of the Saradha rip-off.
Next month, in February, a CBI group had reached his residence for interrogation following which they have been detained by the Kolkata police. Mamata Banerjee had come out in help of Rajeev Kumar alleging that the CBI is performing on the behest of Prime Minister Modi. Defying all decorum, she even held a dharna that had lasted for nearly 72 hours in help of the cop who was being probed for destroying proof.
Following this, the Supreme Court had ordered the investigation of Rajeev Kumar to be carried on exterior the state. He was interrogated for days in Meghalaya’s Shillong together with another accused within the case.
Mamata’s vehement refusal to let the CBI interrogate Rajeev Kumar and her subsequent theatrics solely helped fan the speculations that the federal government equipment and police high brass have been certainly palms in gloves within the quite a few chit fund scams which have plagued the state lately.