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By Sandeep Sahu The ongoing CBI investigation into the multi-thousand crore chit fund scam is fast turning out to be a theatre of the absurd. More than a year after it last questioned Balasore MP Rabindra Jena and Laxmibilasini Biswal, wife of Choudwar-Cuttack MLA Pravat Biswal, in connection with the Seashore case, the agency suddenly […]

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Param Bir Singh alleged that the inquiry officer of the state government is threatening him with false cases unless he withdraws the complaint against Deshmukh.

New Delhi: The government on Saturday appointed Rishi Kumar Shukla, a 1983-batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, as new chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation. His appointment came after the high-level selection committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi met twice in the last nine days to select the name from a list […]

Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is looking for Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in connection with its probe into Saradha chit fund scam. A CBI source on Saturday told IANS that Kumar, a 1989 batch IPS officer, who is close to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee may be arrested in the case. […]

Kolkata: There was a high drama in front of Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar’s official residence on Loudon Street on Sunday as a group CBI officers approached the house, but they were stopped by city police personnel, who also forcibly took the federal probe agency officers to a police station. The Central Bureau of Investigation […]

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi have discussed the face-off between Kolkata Police and the CBI. According to official sources, Singh called up Tripathi late on Sunday to be apprised of the facts of “the unfortunate and unprecedented situation” of Central Bureau of Investigation officers “being manhandled, […]

Kolkata/Bhubaneswar: Amid her standoff with the CBI over its investigation into the Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar’s role in the Saradha and Rose Valley chit fund scams, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said that she is not alone as she will consult many senior leaders cutting across party lines including Odisha CM Naveen […]

Purulia: Taking on Mamata Banerjee on her home turf, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday accused her of trying to protect a “corrupt” officer and said there could be nothing more “shameful and unconstitutional” than a chief minister staging a sit-in to prevent “secrets related to corruption” from spilling out. The BJP leader, […]

Jabalpur/ Bhubaneswar: A day after the autopsy report revealed that Odisha man Sarada Charan Khatua, the junior works manager at Gun Carriage Factory (GCF) in Jabalpur was brutally murdered; Madhya Pradesh government has constituted a 10-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to conduct a detailed probe into the incident. However, several questions are now baffling the […]

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday summoned Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar to appear before it on February 9 in connection with its probe into Sharada chit fund case, officials said. A senior CBI official requesting anonymity told IANS that Kumar has been asked to depose before it on February 7 in […]

Shillong: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday began questioning Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in connection with the chit fund case, an official said. “They (CBI) have started interrogating Kumar in their (CBI) Shillong branch office since 11 a.m. on the matter,” an official told IANS on the condition of anonymity. Kumar arrived […]

Shillong: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday grilled Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar and former Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh separately, and then together, in connection the Saradha and Rose Valley chit fund scams. Both Kumar and Ghosh were still inside the CBI office at Oakland area here as of 10.30 p.m. The […]

New Delhi: “Go and sit in the corner,” Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi told former acting CBI Director M. Nageswara Rao, after holding him guilty of contempt of the Supreme Court on Tuesday. A bench headed by the Chief Justice was in no mood to listen to Rao’s explanations on the issue of transferring out Additional […]

Bhubaneswar: Even after summons from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with Seashore chit fund scam, BJD MLAs Arun Sahoo and Atanu Nayak didn’t appear before the agency. Odisha Police had also issued notices to BJP leaders Golak Mohapatra and Bhrugu Buxipatra soon after CBI summons to the BJD leader. While CBI’s move […]