Bengal CM Mamta Banerjee is seen lending a helping hand to fodder scamster and former Bihar CM Lalu Prasad to consolidate her national political ambition.

This is reflected in the Kolkata police sending a notice to CBI joint director Pankaj Srivastava, asking him to appear before the investigating officer at Bhawanipur police station within seven days in connection with a complaint registered against him last month.

One Vaibhav Khattar has filed a complaint with the Bhawanipore police station about the CBI illegally detaining and torturing him in a case in which he claimed he had no connection.

Khattar, an employee of a private mill in West Bengal, was raided by the federal investigating agency in August last year in connection with its investigation into alleged involvement of the mill owner, Dipesh Chandak, in a case of multi-crore fodder scam that had happened in Bihar in the early 90s.

The Kolkata Police summon to the CBI joint director (east) comes close on the heels of a fierce tiff between the premier investigating agency and the city police over its action against outgoing Kolkata Police commissioner Rajeev Kumar in the Saradha chit fund scam.