Letter to BS: Drama involving WB govt and CBI is disturbing, unedifying

Our states are not to the Union of India what a district of the state is to the state.

The drama involving the West Bengal government and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has been both disturbing and unedifying. To the non-aligned, both parties’ behaviour fails the smell-test. The Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar should have joined the investigation much earlier. If he had apprehensions that he might be framed or coerced, then he could have sought the presence of his lawyer. The CBI team should have been treated with greater courtesy. Similarly, the CBI could have come at normal hours, not at 7 pm, and with less show of strength. The CBI’s inaction over the past four years,