On February 03, 2019 (Sunday), the country witnessed an unprecedented attack on India’s premier investigating agency, namely, the CBI, in West Bengal headed by Mamata Banerjee.
The CBI officials had gone to the house of Commissioner of Police (CP), Kolkata, in connection with their investigation of Saradha chit fund scam.
The attack was launched by the state police of Bengal controlled by Mamata Banerjee when they reportedly detained a team of CBI officials outside the house of Rajeev Kumar.
According to a report by India Today, CBI suspects that Rajeev Kumar, the Commissioner of Police of Kolkata, is in possession of a few crucial documents which he had seized during his probe in Saradha scam as the chief of the Special Investigation Team (SIT).
The Apex Court had then reportedly said, “State Police have not yet been able to trace the money trails that clearly had an inter-state as well as possible international links.” The above judgement came even before Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the charge.
A CBI officer had told India Today that since the CBI also doubted that some tampering with the documents had been done collected by the SIT, it wanted to examine all the officers of the SIT including Rajeev Kumar.
The Supreme Court dismissed the bail application of a petitioner, who is an Officer of the office of the Alipore District Judge’s Court, accused of floating a tender without the permission of the District Judge.
During the investigation, it has been found that there were no supplies but entries were affected in the documents of the office.
The Counsel, appearing for the State of West Bengal, opposed the bail application and submitted that the petitioner is not cooperating with the investigation.
Whereas the Counsel, appearing for the petitioner, submitted that he needs time to file a rejoinder.Read More....
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s act of putting a hurdle in the way of CBI’s investigation into Saradha chit fund scam has been exposed in our articles Why the Attack on CBI in Bengal is Virtually an Attack on the Highest Court of India and Spot the Dictator: Mamata Who Became Law unto Herself, or, Narendra Modi Who Abided By the Law?.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi has tweeted in support of Mamata Banerjee.
He not only said that the Congress is standing “shoulder to shoulder” with Mamata Banerjee but also maintained that “the happenings in Bengal are a part of the unrelenting attack on India’s institutions by Mr Modi & the BJP.”
But the same Rahul Gandhi and Congress have previously attacked Mamata Banerjee on this particular issue of Saradha scam.
Since the Congress has also spoken of the scam many times before that the scam has happened under Mamata Banerjee government, why should it feel troubled when CBI goes to question anyone regarding this case?
The below infographic brings out the evidence of Congress’ hypocrisy and their u-turn over Saradha scam.
On Monday, the court warned the governments of Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh to stop stubble burning.
The SC has said in the strict words that the entire administration including the police, secretary, sarpanch, etc.
would be held responsible if another instance of stubble burning takes place in these states.
We are losing precious years of our lives… It is writ large that various State governments, civic bodies have failed to discharge their liabilities.
It is time to fix liability… This is a shocking state of affairs,” the frustrated Bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Deepak Gupta asserted.
Justice Mishra said, “Who is responsible for stubble burning?
