New Delhi: On Tuesday, The Supreme Court will hear applications moved by the CBI alleging destruction of electronic evidence related to the Saradha chit fund scam case by the Kolkata Police commissioner. The CBI alleged that it has moved the application as an extraordinary situation has arisen in which the top police officials of the West Bengal Police are sitting on a dharna along with a political party in Kolkata.

While the applications accusing Kolkata Police chief Rajeev Kumar of destroying evidence related to the case and of him spoiling in contempt of court was mentioned by Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta before a bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjeev Khanna.
 

On Monday the bench declined the plea of the SG to hear the two applications in the post-lunch session, asking what the urgency was since the CBI officers who were detained by Kolkata Police while attempting to question Kumar were released on Sunday night. The top court said all material or evidence has to be placed before it by means of affidavit. the CJI said. “We will come down heavily on him (Kolkata police commissioner) if there's any material to show evidence is sought to be destroyed,” further added that  "When did you file your plea? This morning and we've already read it. In fact, we were late to the court by a few minutes because we were reading your applications. And there's no evidence of what you're saying right now,”

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At the outset, the SG said an "extraordinary situation has arisen making the CBI to move the application for apex court's intervention". He alleged that on Sunday night CBI officers were taken into custody by the West Bengal Police when they had gone to the Kolkata police commissioner's office for evidence in connection with the probe in the Saradha scam.

The bench said it will hear the matter on Tuesday morning after indicating that it was not going to hear the matter Monday. The SG said it was a case of an "extraordinary situation as the police commissioner sitting on dharna with a political party."

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