Kolkata police, CBI row hits India

The detention of eight Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials by Kolkata police has triggered a tense showdown between the government of Narendra Modi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, reports The Times of India, reports bdnews24.com.

Eight CBI officials had come to question Kolkata police chief Rajeev Kumar in connection with two Ponzi schemes.Several hundred Kolkata police personnel surrounded the CBI's offices in the city and forcibly took the officials to a nearby police station.

Mamata Banerjee went to the police commissioner's residence and accused the central government of attempting a 'constitutional coup in Bengal'.