CBI summons former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar in Rose Valley case

As the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) intensifies its probe in ponzi scams in West Bengal, Minister and Trinamool Congress general secretary Partha Chatterjee Friday appeared before the agency at the CGO Complex in Kolkata. Chatterjee, who has been called in connection with an ongoing probe in the Saradha chit fund scam, reached the CBI office at 2 pm.

Sources claimed that the CBI is probing the financial transaction between the Saradha chit fund owner Sudipta Sen and TMC mouthpiece Jago Bangla. Chatterjee is the editor of the newspaper and is being examined to find out details of the alleged financial assistance received by the paper.

Chatterjee, the MLA from Behala Paschim Assembly constituency in the southern part of the city of Kolkata, is among the most senior members of the TMC, and is considered close to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.