Rajeev Kumar, a mighty Kolkata cop close to Mamata, is now just a pale shadow of himself
Rajeev Kumar had once towered above the landscape of West Bengal and its capital Kolkata as the high-profile police commissioner of the city. Now, he is a pale shadow of his former self, shuttling between the Supreme Court and the Calcutta High Court, filing petitions seeking extension of legal protection from probable arrest, and to get the CBI’s notices to him quashed.
The CBI is about to file a supplementary chargesheet in the Bengal chit fund scam case, and is set to name Kumar as co-accused under sections relating to criminal conspiracy, for allegedly tampering with evidence and trying to hide relevant documents to save the accused, including politicians associated with the ruling Trinamool Congress.