To question Kumar over all this, he was issued summons twice, which he failed to respond to. It was to seize this evidence the CBI landed up at Kumar's residence on February 3,
The CBI on Tuesday submitted an affidavit before the Supreme Court to make its case against beleaguered Kolkata police chief Rajeev Kumar and give evidence about his clear role in the Saradha and Rose Valley chit fund scam, especially shielding the scam accused by either suppressing, destroying or doctoring crucial evidence.
To question Kumar over all this, he was issued summons twice, which he failed to respond to. It was to seize this evidence the CBI landed up at Kumar's residence on February 3, which led to an unprecedented turn of events, which the affidavit described as "armed rebellion" against Central government and CBI.
Bringing proof to nail the Kolkata police chief against his claim that the CBI was out to hound him, the agency's affidavit explains the sequence of events from April 26, 2013, when the investigation into the chit fund cases involving three companies — Saradha, Rose Valley and Tower group — stood transferred from the SIT headed by Kumar to the CBI. The material makes for a strong prima facie case against Kumar under Prevention of Corruption Act, the affidavit stated.
It alleges not only that evidence was returned to accused in the chit fund scams, but large cash transactions took place that seems to have benefitted the current ruling party in West Bengal.
The CBI noted that following the arrest of Sudipta Roy, the owner of Saradha chit fund, a laptop and four to five mobile phones were seized from him, but were returned by the investigating officer (IO) of the SIT, whose functional head was Kumar. "The return of crucial evidence to the main accused by the SIT despite the regular monitoring by the Calcutta High Court clearly show connivance of SIT to a larger conspiracy where local authorities have obstructed investigation and made attempts to destroy evidence prior to transfer of case to CBI (sic)," the affidavit said.
The CBI also claims that Saradha and Rose Valley had flourishing business between 2012 and 2015 — the same period when Kumar was Commissioner of Police at Bidhan Nagar. The investigating agency claimed to have in its possession correspondence between senior police officers and politicians to disclose the nexus that aided the chit fund scam.
Kumar's role is also suspect in shielding the other Ponzi company Rose Valley as he suppressed an FIR lodged on October 4, 2013, against the company while transferring all cases to CBI. It was only later when CBI was probing another FIR in Odisha against Rose Valley that it came to light. As to why Kumar possibly shielded the accused, the CBI claims to have discovered a money trail showing large cash transactions in cheques into the party coffers of the Trinamool Congress, the ruling party in West Bengal.
The last of the charge made by CBI includes tampering, doctoring or destroying of CDR of the prime accused. When CBI obtained original CDRs from the service providers, they discovered that the CDR supplied by Kumar was either doctored or tampered. It is the CBI's claim that the investigation material with SIT has not been completely handed over.
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