Kolkata: The Governor of West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankhar on Sunday sanctioned the prosecution of 4 leaders of the Trinamool Congress — all of them ministers through the time of the alleged fee of a criminal offense that got here to gentle within the purported Narada sting tapes.
As per a Raj Bhavan official the choice to accord the sanctions in opposition to of Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee, Madan Mitra and Sovan Chatterjee was taken after a request was filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
“Honourable governor is the competent authority to accord sanction in terms of law as he happens to be the appointing authority for such ministers in terms of Article 164 of the Constitution,” an announcement issued by the officer of Raj Bhavan learn.
The assertion stated that the sanction for prosecution of the 4 leaders was accorded by Dhankhar “after the CBI had made a request and made available entire documentation relevant to the case to the honourable governor and he invoked his powers under Article 163 and 164 of the Constitution, being the competent authority to accord such sanction”.
The Narada sting tapes which was made public earlier than the West Bengal 2016 meeting elections claimed to have been shot in 2014. In the video ministers, MPs and MLAs had been allegedly seen receiving cash from representatives of a fictitious firm in lieu of promised favours.
The Calcutta High Court had ordered a CBI probe into the sting operation in March, 2017.Â
The 4 ministers had been a component of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s cupboard when the tapes had been allegedly made in 2014.
Notably, 43 MLAs of TMC will take oath as ministers in Mamata’s Cabinet in West Bengal on Monday. The swearing-in ceremony of ministers in West Bengal might be held tomorrow and the record of the Cabinet of Ministers has already been launched.
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