Narada sting operation: 2 Bengal ministers taken to CBI office in Kolkata

Bengal ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee were taken to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) office in Kolkata on Monday morning in connection with the probe into the Narada sting operation, news agency ANI reported.

The move by CBI comes after
an earlier sanction tweeted out by West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on May
8, through which the prosecution of Hakim, Mukherjee, Mitra and Chatterjee was
granted to CBI under Article 164 of the constitution.

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“Governor accorded sanction
for prosecution of Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee, Madan Mitra & Sovan
Chatterjee being appointing authority of Ministers @MamataOfficial under
Article 164 & thus competent authority. Media reports that sanction was for
being MLA is incorrect”, the tweet noted.

Later on Monday, Trinamool
Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee, Sobhan Chatterjee’s wife Ratna Chatterjee, as well
as TMC MP Santanu Sen arrived at the CBI office.

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The Narada sting operation
case, conducted originally in 2014 and made public before the 2016 assembly
elections in West Bengal, saw the aforementioned ministers receiving money from
a representative of a make-believe entity in order to get favours.