In a fresh development to Narada sting operation case, the Enforcement Directorate has named two sitting West Bengal ministers - Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee - in its chargesheet. Madan Mitra and Sovan Chatterjee have also been named in ED's chargesheet.
On 17 May 2021, Trinamool ministers Subrata Mukherjee and Firhad Hakim, MLA Madan Mitra and former mayor of Kolkata Sovan Chatterjee were arrested by the CBI which is investigating the Narada sting tape case on a 2017 order of the High Court.
- They were granted bail by the Special CBI court on May 17 itself, however, the High Court had stayed the order, which remanded them to judicial custody. They had been placed under house arrest on May 21 by the High Court, modifying its earlier order of stay on the bail.
Journalist Mathew Samuel of Narada News, a web portal, had conducted a Narada sting operation in 2014 wherein some people resembling TMC ministers, MPs and MLAs were seen receiving money from representatives of a fictitious company in lieu of favours.
The four arrested politicians were ministers in the Mamata Banerjee government at that time. Ahead of the 2016 Assembly elections in West Bengal, the sting operation was made public.
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