New Delhi: The Supreme Court asked Attorney General (AG) KK Venugopal to justify why tampering with call detail records was not brought to its notice even when they knew about it since June 28, 2018.
The Supreme Court while hearing CBI vs West Bengal case asked AG if he could point out any action by the Bengal police previously which could be termed as contemnuos act to which AG replied in affirmative and cited tampering with CDRs.
While submitting his case with the bench comprising CJI Ranjan Gogoi and Sanjiv Khanna, KK Venugopal stated that surrounding CBI officials and snatching their earphones, when they went to investigate Sharda Chit fund scam, by Kolkata police is contempt against the chief secretary, DGP and commissioner of police.
Adding on further he said that the environment in West Bengal has become hostile for any investigation.
The court has asked AG and SG to file an affidavit within 2 weeks disclosing all the facts in order to throw light on the present situation as it cannot act upon oral submissions of AG and SG claiming that incomplete or false CDRs were given by Rajiv Kumar.
The matter is next listed for hearing on March 26.
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