HC orders CID to file probe report on ex-SP's 'extortion' case

The Calcutta High Court Monday directed the CID to file a report in a month on the progress of probe into the extortion case against former IPS officer Bharati Ghosh and the alleged involvement of her husband M A V Raju in it.

A division bench, comprising justices Joymalyo Bhattacharya and R K Kapoor, directed the CID to file the report on October 1 in connection with a bail prayer moved by Raju, who is in custody for the last 26 days.

Raju was arrested by the CID immediately after the high court rejected his anticipatory bail prayer on August 8.

Moving his bail prayer, Raju's counsels claimed that he worked in a respectable position in a reputed organisation and has been a regular tax payer. They claimed that he was in possession of money earned by him.

Opposing the bail prayer, public prosecutor Saswata Gopal Mukherjee submitted that Rs 2 crore have been recovered from a flat, which was in Raju's possession, at Madurdaha in Kolkata and the source of the money is yet to be known.

Releasing Raju on bail at this juncture would be detrimental to the investigation, they said.

The court adjourned the hearing for four weeks, while directing the CID to file a progress report into the case against Raju and Ghosh