Two policemen handed over a letter to the CBI on behalf of former Calcutta police commissioner Rajeev Kumar stating that he would be available at his Park Street residence from Friday for the daily attendance ordered by court.

Calcutta High Court had on Thursday ordered the former commissioner to be present at his home at 4pm every day, when a CBI officer would record his attendance.

Kumar’s passport was also submitted to the state’s joint secretary on Friday on the court’s instructions to ensure that he cannot leave the country.

The CBI would start visiting Kumar’s residence from Saturday even though the letter from the former top cop was received well before 4pm, a CBI source said.

“That would be only to mark his attendance as instructed by the honourable court. We will not question him at home. A fresh summons will be issued soon for his appearance at the CGO complex,” an officer of the central agency said.

Kumar, an IPS officer of the 1989 batch, lives in the IPS officers’ residential quarters at 34 Park Street, where the office of the deputy commissioner (south division) is situated. The building is home to several other senior IPS officers of Calcutta and Bengal police.

Kumar had earlier this week sought seven days from the CBI before he appeared before the central agency sleuths for interrogation in the Saradha case. The weeklong window ends on Monday, an officer said.

A vacation bench of the high court had on Thursday instructed Kumar to be present before the CBI for interrogation and to cooperate with the investigation but barred the central agency from arresting him at least till July 11.

The CBI received two trunkloads of documents from the Bidhannagar police commissionerate on Friday along with several files related to the Saradha probe. A sub-inspector of police brought the trunks in a prison van and handed them over to the officers of the Economic Offence Wing at the CGO complex, sources said. Senior officers said they had been waiting for the documents for years.

The police had handed over two trunkloads of documents to the central investigating agency on Thursday as well.

“We are preparing to question Kumar in a day or two once he is ready. Our questions are already ready,” said an officer refusing to go into further details.

Sources said these questions would be different from the ones CBI had asked Kumar during his interrogation in Shillong in February.