New Delhi: Troubles seem to be mounting for the former Kolkata top cop Rajeev Kumar, who is evading the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) summons for questioning in Saradha chit fund case, as the agency has constituted a special team to trace his location, sources said on Tuesday.
A highly placed CBI source said: “We are constituting a special team to trace the location or whereabouts of Rajeev Kumar to join the investigation at the earliest.”
The agency’s action comes after the former Kolkata Police Commissioner ignored three summons sent to him by the CBI since Friday.
The senior IPS officer on Tuesday again failed to appear before the CBI at its Salt Lake office in Kolkata. The source said that the CBI had summoned Kumar on Monday asking him to appear before it on Tuesday at 10 a.m. But he again failed to depose before the agency.
Kumar was asked to appear before the agency on Saturday and then on Monday also.
The source said that the agency on Sunday forwarded two letters to the Director General of Police (DGP) asking for sharing the reason for Kumar’s leave and his whereabouts.
“The DGP office has conveyed the CBI’s message to Kumar and also about its summons to appear before the agency,” he said.
The agency’s move came after the Calcutta High Court withdrew the interim protection from arrest given to the former Kolkata Police Commissioner in the Saradha chit fund scam case.