Saradha Scam: CBI grills IPS officer Arnab Ghosh for nearly 10 hours
Kolkata, May 29 (UNI): IPS officer Arnab Ghosh was today grilled for nearly ten hours by the CBI officials probing the Saradha chit fund scam and asked him to appear again on Thursday, sources with knowledge of the developments said.
Former CID chief Arnab Ghosh, who arrived around 1000 hours at the CGO Complex at Salt Lake responding to central investigating agency's summon on Tuesday, left the CBI office at around 1940 hours after being questioned in phases, sources added.
Mr Ghosh will be questioned again from 1000 hours on Thursday, sources added.
Mr Ghosh, a former CID chief at Bidhannagar Commissionrate appeared today after skipping several summons.
The Special Investigating Team set up by the Mamata Banerjee government in 2013 to probe Saradha scam was headed by the then Bidhannagar SP Rajeev Kumar, and Arnab Ghosh was his assistant, before the Supreme Court handed over the probe to the CBI.
The CBI on Tuesday also grilled a key officer of the SIT (Inspector) Prabhakar Nath, the then subordinate of Mr Ghosh.
The CBI accused former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar of misleading the central investigating agency by not providing vital documents to pinpoint many people, who were party to a large scale cheating of cores of rupees and depriving millions of poor investors.
The CBI probing the scam under a Supreme Court directive, was also considering a fresh legal option to have former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar into its custody for questioning after the IPS officer skipped Monday's summon saying he needed more time to appear before the central investigating agency.
Rajeev Kumar, who was removed from the ADG/CID post by the Election Commission of India before the last phase of Lok Sabha polls and was posted to Union home ministry, was reinstated by the Bengal government on Sunday, but reportedly he did not join his Bhawani Bhawan office here.
The CBI on Sunday had issued a summon notice directing Rajeev Kumar to appear at 10am on Monday.
He is reportedly on a six-day leave from last Monday.
The CBI accuses Rajeev Kumar of tampering vital documents while heading a team of SIT during 2013-14 in the Saradha chit fund case.
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