The Supreme Court hinted on Tuesday that trouble could be in store for former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar, saying it has found “something very, very serious” in the CBI’s report on the IPS officer’s conduct while heading West Bengal police’s probe into the politically sensitive chit fund scam cases. The remark about Kumar, whom CM Mamata Banerjee had described as the best cop, came when attorney general K K Venugopal and solicitor general Tushar Mehta were detailing alleged attempts by the state police and administration to derail and delay the SC-directed probe into chit fund cases. A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna wanted to know the outcome of the CBI’s questioning of Kumar in Shillong in February regarding the latter’s role as the head of West Bengal Police’s probe into the chit fund scam cases.

The Supreme Court hinted on Tuesday that trouble could be in store for former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar, saying it has found “something very, very serious” in the CBI’s report on the IPS officer’s conduct while heading West Bengal police’s probe into the politically sensitive chit fund scam cases. The remark about Kumar, whom CM Mamata Banerjee had described as the best cop, came when attorney general K K Venugopal and solicitor general Tushar Mehta were detailing alleged attempts by the state police and administration to derail and delay the SC-directed probe into chit fund cases. A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna wanted to know the outcome of the CBI’s questioning of Kumar in Shillong in February regarding the latter’s role as the head of West Bengal Police’s probe into the chit fund scam cases.