Sarada Scam

High Court appoints Indian Police Service officer Ashwin Shenvi as the head of the Special Investigation Team and orders the CBI to send him to Kolkata within seven days so that he can start functioning in his new role

Mr Chatterjee, a former Mayor of Kolkata, was accompanied by his friend Baisakhi Banerjee to the CBI office at CGO Complex in Salt Lake.

Former Kolkata police chief Rajeev Kumar has been given protection from arrest by the Calcutta High Court in the in the Saradha chit fund scam. The IPS officer is accused of destroying evidence related to the Ponzi scheme when he was heading the probe.

Amid the massive drama between the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Kolkata Police Commissioner, the Supreme Court observed in a lighter note that both parties must go to the "cool place" that Shillong is.

The Supreme Court today termed the allegation of the West Bengal police obstructing the CBI in its probe into the multi-crore Saradha ponzi scam as "sorry state of affairs" and directed that the probe agency officials should not be summoned for questioning by the state SIT.

Taking all these developments together, 2016 threatens to be a trying one for all those committed to democracy, equality and secularism.

Sources close to Congress leader P Chidambaram today dismissed the charge of conflict of interest when his wife appeared as a senior counsel for the income tax department in 2004 when he was Finance Minister or when she took up the case of a woman in connection with the Sarada chit fund scam case.

High Court appoints Indian Police Service officer Ashwin Shenvi as the head of the Special Investigation Team and orders the CBI to send him to Kolkata within seven days so that he can start functioning in his new role

Mr Chatterjee, a former Mayor of Kolkata, was accompanied by his friend Baisakhi Banerjee to the CBI office at CGO Complex in Salt Lake.

Former Kolkata police chief Rajeev Kumar has been given protection from arrest by the Calcutta High Court in the in the Saradha chit fund scam. The IPS officer is accused of destroying evidence related to the Ponzi scheme when he was heading the probe.

Amid the massive drama between the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Kolkata Police Commissioner, the Supreme Court observed in a lighter note that both parties must go to the "cool place" that Shillong is.

The Supreme Court today termed the allegation of the West Bengal police obstructing the CBI in its probe into the multi-crore Saradha ponzi scam as "sorry state of affairs" and directed that the probe agency officials should not be summoned for questioning by the state SIT.

Taking all these developments together, 2016 threatens to be a trying one for all those committed to democracy, equality and secularism.

Sources close to Congress leader P Chidambaram today dismissed the charge of conflict of interest when his wife appeared as a senior counsel for the income tax department in 2004 when he was Finance Minister or when she took up the case of a woman in connection with the Sarada chit fund scam case.