Senior IPS officer and former Kolkata Police chief Rajeev Kumar on Thursday reported at the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), a day after he was relieved from duty in West Bengal by the Election Commission, officials said.
The agency told Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Navin Kumar Kashyap that it wants to withdraw the application filed on February 1, 2018.
In its charge sheet filed in a special court in Bhubaneswar, the agency has claimed that journalist Suman Chattopadhyay, who was a director of Disha Productions and Media Private Limited (DPMPL), had received the amount from the I-Core Group.
The Supreme Court Monday directed the CBI to complete by June 3 its probe into the alleged murder of 11 girls at a shelter home in Bihar's Muzaffarpur and asked the agency to file a status report.
A bench of Justices S. A. Bobde and S. A. Nazeer asked the probe agency to file the status report by April 23 and posted the matter for hearing on April 24.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC), headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the extension in deputation tenure of Aramane, a 1995 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, till January 16 next year, an order issued Tuesday by the Personnel Ministry said.
A bench of Justices S A Bobde, S K Kaul and Indira Banerjee said that it will take up the matter for hearing on April 11 as the court was not sitting in the combination which had earlier heard the issue.
The submission came after Joginder Singh, who is a witness and the complainant in the case, told the court that certain facts written in the statement given by him to the police relating to the case were false.
The CBI, which sought nod from a bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi to file its response to the bail plea of Yadav, said the RJD leader is likely to get involved in political activities and misuse the grant of bail ahead of upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Sources added there is a "strong possibility" of this cash being used as an election inducement to fund political campaigns and bribe voters in the poll-bound state and in Delhi.
In its plea to the apex court, the agency said the recall of the order granting Kumar an interim protection from the arrest was necessary "to unravel the entire gamut of the larger conspiracy in the ponzi scam cases".
The company deliberately defaulted on repayment and also claimed inadmissible credit causing a loss approximately of of Rs 2,348 crore to the banks, the CBI alleged.
Supreme Court said that as the CBI's status report was filed in a sealed cover, it cannot pass any order at the moment without hearing the other side.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sources said the agency would initiate the summons as it had completed the scrutiny of documents it had seized during the January 24 raids carried out at four locations in Maharashtra.
The agency had taken up this enquiry on a complaint by the Uttar Pradesh government which was referred to it in January.
Kumar, who served as the city police chief since May 2016, has been shifted to the post of Additional Director General of the State CID Department.
Three judges of the apex court -- Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justices AK Sikri and NV Ramana had recused themselves from hearing the matter.
The affidavits, submitted by the state government by police claim that no police officials went on 'dharna manch' where West Bengal CM Mamta Banerjee sat to protest CBI action.
Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar arrived in Shillong on Friday evening from Kolkata via Guwahati after the Supreme Court directed him to join the CBI probe at a "neutral place" in Shillong.
Earlier on Monday, Rao had admitted that as interim chief of the CBI he committed a "mistake" in transferring Sharma and apologised to the top court, saying he had no intention to circumvent its orders.
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