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CBI searches for former Kolkata top cop, serves deadline for questioning

The probe agency on Thursday also moved a city court seeking an arrest warrant against Rajeev Kumar in the Saradha ponzi scheme scam

Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar
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Press Trust of India Kolkata
CBI sleuths Thursday searched various locations across the city for top West Bengal police officer Rajeev Kumar in connection with the Saradha ponzi scheme scam and asked him to appear before it on Friday at 11 am.

Kumar, who is the additional director general of CID and is alleged to have suppressed crucial evidences required for preparing the final CBI chargesheet in the scam, has been evading the probe agency's summons to appear before it and his whereabouts could not be traced.

The CBI sleuths branched out to at the IPS officers's mess at Alipore and a five-star hotel on EM Bypass