Saradha chit fund scam: SC issues notice to Vodafone, Airtel as CBI alleges non-cooperation

The Supreme Court today issued notice to telecom service providers Airtel and Vodafone in an application filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in relation to the Saradha Chit Fund Scam..The CBI has alleged that the service providers are not cooperating with the agency in the investigation..The agency had earlier alleged that Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar had engaged in evidence tampering. With a view to probing these allegations, the CBI had sought call data records (CDRs) from Airtel and Vodafone..To this end, an application was filed before the Supreme Court seeking directions to the service providers to share CDRs of certain numbers. It submitted that the companies were being evasive in sharing this information..The Bench of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna today issued notice in the case..Last month, the CBI approached the Supreme Court against the “non-cooperation” of the West Bengal government after the State Police detained, and subsequently released, the CBI officials who visited Kolkata to question the Commissioner of Police, Rajeev Kumar..Kumar was heading the Special Investigation Team that was probing the Saradha Chit fund Scam and the Rose Valley Ponzi Scam. He was summoned for questioning by the CBI on several occasions after some documents relating to the scams went missing. Kumar allegedly ignored these summons and is accused by the Interim Director of the CBI of “destroying evidence against himself.”.On February 3, a team of CBI officers landed at Kumar’s doorstep to question him on the cases. The Kolkata Police then restrained the CBI officers from entering Kumar’s bungalow, and detained them at a Police Station..Before the Supreme Court, the CBI had claimed that Kumar was involved in the destruction of electronic evidence in the Saradha case..The Supreme Court later ordered Kumar to appear and make himself available before the CBI and to co-operate with the probe into the Saradha scam..Read the Order:

Saradha chit fund scam: SC issues notice to Vodafone, Airtel as CBI alleges non-cooperation

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