Senior IAS officer Godala Kiran Kumar and former DM of Malda who was arrested about a year ago, by the Siliguri Commissioner of Police J Jayaraman making national headlines was on Thursday grilled intensely by the Enforcement Directorate for his alleged involvement in the multi-crore Siliguri-Jalpaiguri-Development-Authority scam.
Kumar was summoned by the ED sleuths at the CGO complex at Salt lake in Kolkata where he was questioned from 9 am in the morning till 4 pm.
Kumar would not speak to the media when he went out but, sources in the ED said he was given a set of questionaires and was asked to write his answers related to the scam.
“We will go through the reply and then will summon him again if there is a need” said one official adding he appeared on Thursday after notices were served on him repeatedly.
Kumar had earlier functioned as the CMD of the SJDA when the reported `120 crore scam took place. The case came in the limelight when, Jayaraman, the then CP of Siliguri probing the case arrested him after he refused to appear before him for interrogation.
The State Government immediately swung into action, with Chief Secretary questioning the propriety of the IPS officer arresting the IAS officer without prior sanction from the higher authorities.
The Government then arranged for his bail the next day with the public prosecutor strangely failing to appear in the court. The names of a number of ruling Trinamool Congress mandarins including MlAs have come up in the multi-crore scam.