Mumbai April 18 : Senior BJP leader Kirit Somaiya on Monday appeared before the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai Police in connection with the INS Vikrant funds misappropriation case. Somaiya was in Commissioner’s office in south Mumbai for nearly more than two hours Earlier, the EOW had issued summons to him and his son Neil Somaiya, a day after the Somaiya senior’s pre-arrest bail plea was rejected by the Mumbai Sessions Court on April 11. Based on a complaint lodged by an ex-serviceman, the Trombay police on April 7 registered an FIR against the Somaiyas for allegedly misappropriating about Rs 57 crore collected through crowdfunding to save the decommissioned INS Vikrant from being scrapped and converted into a museum. The Bombay High Court had, on April 13, granted interim protection from arrest to Kirit Somaiya and directed him to cooperate with the police’s probe into the case and asked him to “report to the investigation officer in the case for four days, beginning from April 18, between 11 am and 2 pm.” AAA RJ