On board flight AI 9712 (Shillong to Kolkata): Kolkata Police chief Rajeev Kumar and the seven CBI interrogators, who spent 34 hours over five days closeted in a room at the agency's Shillong office, spent another hour and 40 minutes together - on an Air India flight taking them back to Kolkata - on Wednesday.
However, they were separated by several rows of seats, and the lack of any interaction suggested that the gulf between the CBI and Kolkata Police was much more than the few feet that separated the two groups. The CBI officers apparently had no clue that Kumar was taking the same flight until they were at the boarding gate. "Is he travelling with us?" asked one officer.
The CBI team had arrived late at the airport and by then Kumar was already in the VIP lounge. The CBI team was the first to board the plane.
At 4.05pm, when Kumar boarded the Air India ATR from Shillong, he found seven CBI officers, including the CBI DSP probing the Rose Valley case, seated in two different rows ahead of him. Not one word was exchanged as Kumar kept his gaze ahead with additional CP Jawed Shamim, DCP Murlidhar Sharma and the three STF officers travelling with them, in tow.
The awkward silence was broken only after the flight landed in Kolkata.
14/02/19 Dwaipayan Ghosh/Times of India
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However, they were separated by several rows of seats, and the lack of any interaction suggested that the gulf between the CBI and Kolkata Police was much more than the few feet that separated the two groups. The CBI officers apparently had no clue that Kumar was taking the same flight until they were at the boarding gate. "Is he travelling with us?" asked one officer.
The CBI team had arrived late at the airport and by then Kumar was already in the VIP lounge. The CBI team was the first to board the plane.
At 4.05pm, when Kumar boarded the Air India ATR from Shillong, he found seven CBI officers, including the CBI DSP probing the Rose Valley case, seated in two different rows ahead of him. Not one word was exchanged as Kumar kept his gaze ahead with additional CP Jawed Shamim, DCP Murlidhar Sharma and the three STF officers travelling with them, in tow.
The awkward silence was broken only after the flight landed in Kolkata.
14/02/19 Dwaipayan Ghosh/Times of India
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