Face of Nation : The CBI has requested for the Lok Sabha Speaker’s permission to prosecute Trinamool Congress MPs together with Sougata Roy and Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar in reference to the Narada sting operation of 2016, by which many leaders are seen allegedly accepting bribes.
CBI sources say the company has written to Speaker Om Birla requesting sanction to behave towards Mr Roy, Ms Dastidar and Prasun Banerjee. Bengal Minister and former MP Subhendu Adhikari can also be being investigated.
“We are yet to receive sanction. Once received, we will file the first charge-sheet in the Narada case naming the above four as an accused,” a senior CBI officer instructed HEARALPUBLICIST.
Mukul Roy, who stop the Trinamool in 2017 and joined the BJP, is not going to be named as an accused within the chargesheet, stated sources, including that the CBI would proceed its probe towards him.
In 2014, Matthew Samuel, the CEO of Narada Information, carried out a sting operation posing as a businessman and was seen within the tapes providing cash to many Trinamool Congress leaders. It got here to be generally known as the “Narada” scandal. The video clips, which surfaced earlier than the 2016 Bengal election, allegedly confirmed Trinamool leaders accepting bribes.
The ruling BJP repeatedly focused Bengal’s ruling social gathering with “Narada and Sarada (chit fund scam)” jibes whereas campaigning for the nationwide election earlier this yr. The Trinamool, which has been surprised by the BJP’s spectacular haul within the nationwide election – 18 of 42 seats – will take one other main blow to its picture if extra of its members are arrested within the run-up to the 2021 polls.
