Summary:
Supreme Court judge Justice L Nageshwar Rao recuses from hearing the Saradha chit fund scam case. He was sitting on the bench with Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjiv Khanna. Justice Rao said that he had appeared for the state as a lawyer so he cannot hear the case. The Court was to take up the contempt petition of CBI against West Bengal chief secretary, DGP and former Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar for not co-operating with the Saradha chit fund investigation. The matter has now been posted to February 26..