CBI vs Mamata: High voltage drama in Kolkata after arrest of ministers; TMC workers pelt stones on forces
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and scores of Trinamool Congress workers reached the CBI’s workplace in Kolkata on Monday to protest in opposition to the arrest of 4 celebration working together with two ministers.
Banerjee has began a sit-in at the CBI workplace right here and demanding from the officers to arrest her. The Chief Minister rushed to the fifteenth flooring of the ‘Nizam Palace’ the place the CBI has the workplace of its anti-corruption cell.
“Didi (Banerjee) will not leave this CBI office until her party colleagues are released or until she is also arrested,” Banerjee’s spokesperson, lawyer Anindyo Raut advised ready media individuals.
He stated Mamata Banerjee advised the CBI officers they’ve arrested the 4 leaders, amongst them two sitting and two former ministers, with out the obligatory discover.
“These arrests are politically motivated and illegal. Suvendu Adhikari and Mukul Roy have been let off though they faced the same charges,” Raut quoted Mamata Banerjee as saying.
News company ANI shared visuals of TMC workers protesting outdoors the CBI workplace with celebration flags and raised slogans in opposition to the CBI and the BJP-led NDA authorities at the Centre. They additionally pelted stones at the security officers outdoors the CBI workplace. The security officers needed to resort to baton cost to disperse the gang.
A big posse of CRPF personnel barricaded the central authorities workplace advanced in Nizam Palace, the place the CBI workplace is positioned. Kolkata Police personnel had been additionally current there in giant numbers.
Earlier at present, Bengal ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, TMC legislator Madan Mitra and former minister Sovan Chatterjee had been arrested by the central company in reference to the Narada sting case in which politicians had been purportedly caught taking cash on digital camera. The motion comes because the central probe company is prone to file its cost sheet in the case.
Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar had not too long ago granted sanction to prosecute all of the 4 leaders, following which the CBI finalised its cost sheet and moved to arrest them.
Family members of the arrested leaders, together with the daughter of Hakim, son of Mitra and Chatterjee’s spouse additionally went to the CBI workplace.
The sting operation was purportedly carried out by Mathew Samuel of Narada TV information channel in 2014 whereby some individuals resembling TMC ministers, MPs and MLAs had been allegedly seen receiving cash from representatives of a fictitious firm in lieu of favours. The tapes had been made public simply earlier than the 2016 meeting elections in West Bengal. The Calcutta High Court had ordered a CBI probe into the sting operation in March, 2017.
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