Kunal Ghosh, former Trinamool Congress MP and an accused in the multi crore Saradha scam, submitted a written complaint to the CBI on Tuesday alleging that Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar was trying influence the investigation.
Mr. Ghosh was jailed in financial scam-related cases for about three years.
Mr. Ghosh returned to the city from Shillong where the CBI had questioned him and Mr. Kumar together for three days. He told journalists at the Kolkata airport that the names of certain influential persons came up during the joint interrogation. Mr. Kumar, he said, had tipped off these influential persons that their names featured in the investigations.
Asked how he could be sure that Mr. Kumar had passed on such information, the journalist-turned-politician said the Kolkata Police Commissioner had himself admitted it. Mr. Ghosh said he could tell from his own experience how influential persons could jeopardise the investigation.
“During the questioning on February 10, these names came up and on February 11 he admitted in his own recorded statement that he had called these people. I have written to the CBI,” said Mr. Ghosh.
There was no response from Mr. Kumar, the Kolkata Police or the West Bengal government to the allegations.
The former TMC MP refused to reveal the questions the CBI posed to him or the names of the influential persons that came up during the questioning.
