New Delhi: Day after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Kolkata Police face off erupted over questioning the Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar, West Bengal Governor KN Tripathi submitted a report to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on the situation on Monday.
The report was prepared by combining the report of the Special Investigation Branch and the reports submitted to the governor by the state chief secretary and the home secretary late Sunday night, the sources said.
The CBI team was to interrogate Kumar, a 1989-batch IPS officer in the Saradha ponzi scam.
Reportedly, Tripathi had summoned state chief secretary Malay Kumar De and state director general of police on Sunday night and asked them to take immediate action to resolve the situation.
Rajnath Singh had called up the governor to know the facts of the "unfortunate and unprecedented situation of CBI officers being manhandled, detained, intimidated and obstructed," the ministry sources said.
MHA also received information that CBI officers in Kolkata had experienced "intimidation and threat to personal safety in course of an investigation into the
Saradha scam being conducted under the directions of the Supreme Court on Sunday," it claimed.
Taking a strong action in a face-off, the Home ministry will further examine the role of some IPS officers in the alleged obstruction and whether they violated the service conduct rules, ministry sources said.
The Ministry of Home Affairs is the cadre-controlling authority of the Indian Police Service (IPS) officers in the country. Sooner after the situation evoked, it further deployed central forces at the CBI office and residential premises of the probe agency officials in the state.
Making a statement in Lok Sabha on Monday on the prevailing situation, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh described the action as "unprecedented" and a threat to the federal political system of the country.
The Supreme Court of India also agreed to give an urgent hearing to CBI's plea alleging destruction of electronic evidence related to the Saradha chit fund scam case by the Kolkata Police commissioner and said it will come down heavily on him if he "even remotely" tries to destroy the evidence.