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Actor Mithun Chakraborty meets RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in Nagpur
The Bollywood actor and former Trinamool Rajya Sabha member is learnt to have spent an hour at the RSS headquarters and then visited the Hedgewar memorial.
Updated on Oct 03, 2019 11:24 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Nagpur | Pradeep Kumar Maitra
Former Kolkata top cop Rajeev Kumar appears before CBI in Saradha scam case
Rajeev Kumar has been summoned multiple times by the Central Bureau of Investigation in recent weeks but failed to appear as he said he was on leave.
Updated on Jun 07, 2019 02:20 PM IST
Kolkata | Press Trust of India
Reply to CBI’s Saradha plea: Ex-Bengal top cop told
The top court had on February 5 restrained the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from taking coercive steps against Kumar but directed him to appear before the agency and “faithfully” cooperate with it.
Updated on Apr 09, 2019 08:37 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
CBI wants to interrogate former Kolkata top cop Rajeev Kumar in custody
Kumar had been embroiled in a controversy for being at loggerheads with the CBI over its investigations into the Saradha chit fund and Rose Valley scams.
Updated on Apr 06, 2019 08:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
CBI moves Supreme Court seeking phone records in Saradha chit fund scam
In an application filed before the top court, the agency said Vodafone and Bharti Airtel had shared CDRs for the years 2012 and 2013 with the West Bengal police when the latter was investigating the Saradha chit fund scam.
Updated on Mar 28, 2019 12:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Bhadra Sinha
Rajeev Kumar back in Kolkata after 5-day grilling by CBI
A team of 12 senior CBI officers examined Kumar for his alleged role in tampering of evidences in the Rs 2,000 crore Saradha chit fund scam, which the agency is probing.
Updated on Feb 13, 2019 07:00 PM IST
New Delhi | Press Trust of India
SC refuses to monitor CBI probe in Saradha case in West Bengal
A chief justice Ranjan Gogoi-led bench refused to entertain an application of some investors in a case the top court had in 2014 disposed of after directing the central agency to probe the scam.
Updated on Feb 11, 2019 11:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Supreme Court refuses to monitor CBI probe into Saradha chit fund scam
A two-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjiv Khanna did not allow the application filed by some investors that despite the apex court’s 2013 order directing the CBI to probe the chit fund scam, the investigation has not attained finality.
Updated on Feb 11, 2019 02:51 PM IST
New Delhi | Press Trust of India
On day 2, CBI grills Kolkata Police chief Rajeev Kumar, former TMC MP in chit fund case
The Central Bureau of Investigation is probing allegations against Kumar relating to the chit fund scandal in which at least two million people were cheated out of their savings by the Saradha Group.
Updated on Feb 10, 2019 11:47 PM IST
Shillong | David Laitphlang
Chit fund scam: CBI begins second round of questioning of Kolkata top cop Rajeev Kumar
Three senior CBI officers questioned Kumar for around eight hours on Saturday about his alleged role in the tampering of crucial evidence in the scam, the officials said.
Updated on Feb 10, 2019 12:03 PM IST
Shillong | HT Correspondent
Stiff at first, Kolkata top cop Rajeev Kumar ‘cooperates’ with CBI in 8-hour grilling
After an initial reluctance, Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar on Saturday started cooperating with CBI’s investigators in the probe related to the Saradha chit fund scam, according to people familiar with the matter.
Updated on Feb 09, 2019 09:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Shillong | David Laitphlang
Kolkata police chief Rajeev Kumar at CBI office for questioning in chit fund scam
Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar is set to be questioned by the CBI on Saturday in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam, days after a standoff between the Mamata Banerjee government and the Centre.
Updated on Feb 09, 2019 12:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Kolkata/Shillong | HT Correspondent
Mamata-CBI fight festers, Supreme Court to hear plea of investigation agency today
The CBI approached the Supreme Court saying Kolkata Police commissioner Kumar was a potential accused in the Saradha chit fund scam and claimed the local police could be destroying crucial evidence.
Updated on Feb 05, 2019 10:41 AM IST
Kolkata/New Delhi | HT Correspondents
TMC serves legal notice to Amit Shah for alleging Mamata’s paintings were bought by chit fund operators
Banerjee has been painting for several years and her works were auctioned a few times. Trinamool leaders always maintained that this was a novel way of raising funds for the party.
Updated on Jan 30, 2019 08:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Kolkata | HT Correspondent
ED summons Nalini Chidambaram again in Saradha ponzi scheme case
Officials said Nalini Chidambaram has been summoned at the Kolkata office of the central probe agency on June 20.
Updated on Jun 18, 2018 03:01 PM IST
PTI, New Delhi | PTI
ED summons P Chidambaram’s wife in connection with Saradha case
Officials said Nalini Chidambaram had been summoned at the Kolkata office of the Enforcement Directorate on May 7.
Updated on Apr 30, 2018 10:18 PM IST
PTI, New Delhi | HT Correspondent