March 21, 2024 7:51 am
With this, Vivek Sahay will have served as West Bengal DGP for the shortest tenure (24 hours). He was given the charge until the poll panel decided on the next appointment after the removal of Rajeev Kumar.
December 29, 2023 10:31 pm
Kumar is considered an able officer; in 2019, the TMC supremo sat on a dharna to stall questioning of the “honest” police officer by the CBI in the Sarada chit fund scam
December 28, 2019 7:56 am
While many have been raising eyebrows over Kumar’s new appointment, some of the government officials claimed it was not the first time that an IPS officer has been given posting outside his cadre.
November 29, 2019 12:49 pm
During the hearing, the Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India S A Bobde told Solicitor General Tushar Mehta the CBI needed to convince the Court as to why Kumar's custody was necessary in the case.
October 04, 2019 8:56 pm
The probe agency has filed an appeal in the apex court against the October 1 order of the high court which had granted him the relief saying it was not an appropriate case for custodial interrogation.
October 03, 2019 3:25 pm
Observing that it was not an appropriate case for custodial interrogation, a division bench of the high court had said Rajiv Kumar, if arrested by CBI, would have to be released immediately on bail by an appropriate court on two sureties of Rs 50,000 each.
October 02, 2019 1:12 am
A bench comprising Justices S Munshi and S Dasgupta said that Kumar must be given a 48-hour notice before being summoned by the CBI for interrogation.
September 30, 2019 3:44 pm
Kumar's lawyers had concluded their arguments in favour of his pre-arrest bail plea on Thursday.
September 27, 2019 10:50 am
The CBI Thursday started making submissions against Kumar’s anticipatory bail plea after his lawyers concluded their arguments in favour of the prayer.
September 26, 2019 4:11 am
A division bench, comprising justices S Munshi and S Dasgupta, heard the submissions by Kumar’s lawyer in support of his anticipatory bail prayer in presence of only those advocates who were related to the case.