Narada Bribery Case: Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra is among the many 4 arrested.
Kolkata:
Two arrested Trinamool Congress ministers, an MLA and a former celebration chief, who had been arrested by CBI within the Narada sting tape case, had been taken to Presidency Correctional Residence in Kolkata late on Monday evening, sources within the central probe company mentioned.
State ministers Subrata Mukherjee and Firhad Hakim, Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra and former chief Sovan Chatterjee had been taken from Nizam Palace, a constructing that homes the CBI workplace, to the jail amid tight safety after medical exams.
Members of the family of the 4 had been current exterior the correctional residence after they had been taken inside.
“I’ve full religion within the judiciary. The BJP can make use of anyone to harass me,” Hakim mentioned exterior the Nizam Palace.
The chairman of the board of directors of Kolkata Municipal Company, who was sobbing, additionally mentioned that he couldn’t end his job of serving to the folks of the town within the time of the pandemic.
“All of us are dangerous males however not Mukul (Roy) and Suvendu (Adhikari),” mentioned Mr Mitra.
Mr Roy and Mr Adhikari, who had been additionally accused within the case, weren’t arrested. They had been TMC leaders when the sting operation was performed however now they’re BJP MLAs.
Mr Chatterjee mentioned, “I’m not a dacoit. I’ve not carried out something mistaken that the CBI might enter my bed room to arrest me.”
The 4 had been arrested within the morning.
The Calcutta Excessive Courtroom on Monday evening stayed a particular CBI courtroom’s choice to grant bail to the 4 who had been arrested and charge-sheeted by the company within the Narada sting tape case.
A division bench mentioned it deemed it acceptable to remain the particular courtroom’s order and direct that the “accused individual shall be handled to be in judicial custody until additional orders”.
The sting operation was performed by Mathew Samuel of Narada News, an internet portal, in 2014 whereby some folks resembling TMC ministers, MPs and MLAs had been seen receiving cash from representatives of a fictitious firm in return of favours.
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