Narada case: Calcutta HC granted interim bail to four TMC leaders

The Calcutta HC granted interim bail to all four TMC leaders accused in the Narada Sting case. According to the latest reports, Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee, Madan Mitra and Sovan Chatterjee have been granted interim bail. The High Court has asked the four leaders to deposit personal bonds of Rs 2-2 lakh each along with two baildars. He has been asked to join the investigation through video conferencing. In addition, he is prohibited from making press statements regarding the ongoing investigation, as per the ANI repor

t. The Calcutta High Court has asked him to deposit a personal bond of two lakh rupees each along with two bail-seekers. They will be involved in the investigation through video conferencing. They will not give press interviews on pending litigation on Narada case.- ANI (@ ANI) May 28, 2021 On May 17, the CBI confirmed that four TMC leaders including two ministers have been arrested in the Narada sting case. . The arrest had given rise to a political drama in the state, with CM Mamata Banerjee arriving at the CBI offices in Kolkata and daring to arrest him as well. After a lot of political drama and uproar by TMC activists, where he had besieged the CBI office, a special CBI court granted him interim bail, After which the CBI moved the High Court challenging the order

. Later, the High Court bench stayed the bail order and ordered the four leaders to be kept in the ‘house arrest’. The CBI is also appealing for the transfer of the case to the High Court. The matter is scheduled to be heard later today. On Thursday, on behalf of the CBI, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta argued before a five-judge bench of the High Court that the special CBI court has come under pressure from the Bengal government. A 5-member bench of Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and Justice IP Mukherjee, Soumen Sen, Arijit Banerjee and Harish Tandon. 

According to a report by the Indian Express, the CBI opposed granting interim bail, stating, “If the constitutional court did not investigate this mobilization, So tomorrow we may have a situation where a gangster gets arrested and his henchmen surround the CBI office. Narada Sting Case Samuel Mathew, the founder of Narada News, allegedly had a sting operation for more than two years. Just before the 2016 West Bengal state assembly elections, Narada News released a sting operation video showing 13 TMC ministers and leaders accepting the bribe in exchange for favors or misusing official positions in the political scene of West Bengal before the election.

Was shown generating the wave. As part of this operation, Samuel formed a fictitious company to contact several TMC ministers for favors in exchange for money. Firhad Hakim, Mukul Roy (now with BJP), Saugat Roy, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Sultan Ahmed, Subrata Mukherjee, Suvendu Adhikari (now with BJP),