Narada sting: Kolkata Mayor Sovan Chatterjee appears before ED for interrogation
According to sources, the cabinet minister reached ED office at around 12 pm.
Earlier on Wednesday, West Bengal Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Minister Firhad Bobby Hakim was interrogated by ED officials for nearly 4 hours 30 minutes in connection with the same case.
Meanwhile, the ED has also sent multiple notices to two other TMC lawmakers- Subrata Mukherjee and Suvendu Adhikari- in connection with the same case, asking them to appear before the agency on Aug 11 and Aug 22, respectively, sources said.
Since Mar 14 last year, news portal- Narada News- released several sting operation footage, where TMC's leaders, ministers, MPs and MLAs were allegedly seen accepting bribes.
However, TMC leadership had claimed that the sting footage was doctored and a conspiracy of the opposition parties.
After getting direction from the Calcutta High Court and Supreme Court, the CBI has started a probe into the case.
On April 17, the investigation agency registered an FIR in connection with the case under several non-bailable sections against 12 influential leaders, cabinet ministers, MLAs and MPs of TMC and one senior IPS officer, who were seen accepting money in the sting footage, reports said.
Besides the CBI, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has also registered a money laundering case in Narada sting case and it is currently investigating the case.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
Support Our Journalism
We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism
IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.
