The CBI has given a clean chit to Kannan, but the Nagaland University Teachers’ Association today iterated that Kannan had taken a CBI team from Calcutta for sightseeing and picnic at Kisama, Khonoma and Mezoma near Kohima in March last year while the investigation by the agency was on.
The teachers’ association said it had demanded a fresh CBI probe led by top officials of the probe agency at a meeting with President Pratibha Patil, the Visitor, human resource development minister Kapil Sibal and CBI director in March this year.
A note issued by the association’s president Rosemary Dzuvichu and its secretary-general N. Venuh alleged that flouting the CBI’s rules, last year the probe team had enjoyed the hospitality of the university and Kannan during their visits in March, September and November.
The team had also used the university’s vehicles, the note said.
The teachers alleged in November, Kannan had played host to the team for several days at the university’s guesthouse at its headquarters at Lumami where he was staying when all relevant documents were at the Kohima office.
“It is highly questionable what kind of investigation was being done at Lumami when the main university office, its staff and all the files were still at the Kohima office,” the association said, adding this prompted it to reject the biased and false CBI report. It was alleged that the CBI report was initially not submitted to the ministry but to Kannan — a move that was questioned by the agency’s director Ashwini Kumar.
The association claimed that the CBI report also did not take into cognisance documentary evidence that it had submitted after obtaining it under the Right to Information Act.
All efforts to contact Kannan, however, failed.