ED official given time to appear before police

Enforcement Directorate official Manoj Kumar, who was asked to appear before Kolkata police for questioning today in a money laundering case, has sought more time.
"We had asked him to come for questioning today but he had sought more time as an internal inquiry of ED is pending. He has asked for few more days, we have granted it," a senior official of Kolkata Police said.
Kumar, who has been suspended for allegedly compromising the Rose valley probe, was summoned by the police yesterday for questioning in the money laundering case.
Meanwhile Suvra Kundu, wife of Rose Valley Group Chairman Gautam Kundu, was today questioned for the third time by sleuths of Kolkata police in relation to black money and money laundering case and her alleged relationship with Kumar, who was investigating the Rose Valley scam.

Suvra and Kumar have been in news for the past two days after a CCTV footage purportedly showed them both travelling together by air from Kolkata to Delhi last month and later having checked into a hotel in the Sunder Nagar area of Delhi.
ED Officials said Kumar, an Assistant Director of the agency, has been "suspended pending enquiry" and has been removed from the cases he was probing like the Rose Valley chit fund case and some pertaining to the coal blocks allocation.
Kumar has denied the charges saying the entire episode was being blown out of proportion and was part of a "larger conspiracy" to take him out of the case.