{"id":308953,"date":"2019-02-04T11:16:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T11:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308953"},"modified":"2019-02-04T11:16:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T11:16:42","slug":"cbi-vs-mamata-west-bengal-governor-submits-report-to-home-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cbi-vs-mamata-west-bengal-governor-submits-report-to-home-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"CBI vs Mamata: West Bengal Governor submits report to Home Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308954 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/governor-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/governor-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/governor.jpg 534w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/governor-507x420.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi on Monday sent a report to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on the prevailing situation in West Bengal in the wake of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee\u2019s dharna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mamata is staging the dharna against the CBI\u2019s attempt to grill Kolkata Police chief Rajeev Kumar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rajnath had called up Tripathi on Sunday to take stock of the situation after a CBI team, which went to Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar\u2019s residence in the city to question him in connection with Sharda Chit Fund scam was denied permission and were detained by Kolkata police officers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, the Special Investigation Branch (SIB) submitted its findings to Tripathi, after which he compiled the report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Governor also held discussions with state Chief Secretary Malay De and other officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mamata Banerjee has been sitting on a dharna since yesterday against alleged misuse of the CBI by Modi government and to save the constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi on Monday sent a report to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on the prevailing situation in West Bengal in the wake of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee\u2019s dharna. Mamata is staging the dharna against the CBI\u2019s attempt to grill Kolkata Police chief Rajeev Kumar. Rajnath had called up Tripathi on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[10784,2597],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308955,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308953\/revisions\/308955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}