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The selective arrests have political vendetta written all over them, and the BJP - squarely defeated in the state elections - is coming across as a sore loser.
The Calcutta High Court had on May 21 ordered shifting of two West Bengal ministers, an MLA and a former Kolkata mayor to house arrest from jail.
Suvendu Adhikari visited Solicitor General Tushar Mehta’s residence in New Delhi on Thursday. Mehta soon denied meeting Adhikari
High Court, Governor, CBI, a handful of ministers…a few notable ones exonerated by politics because they are on the other side. The Narada scam rolls on like a train wreck.
Ministers Subrata Mukherjee and Firhad Hakim, Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra and former city mayor Sovan Chatterjee will continue to remain in judicial custody.
Adhikari visited Mehta’s residence in New Delhi on Thursday. Solicitor general Tushar Mehta soon denied meeting Adhikari
Besides Mamata Banerjee and Moloy Ghatak, CBI has also made Trinamool Congress MP and lawyer Kalyan Banerjee a party in its petition before the high court.
Madan Mitra, Trinamool Congress MLA Madan, and Sovan Chatterjee, former party leader were taken to the state-run SSKM Hospital as both the politicians...
The case pertains to the ‘Narada tapes’ sting operation shot in 2014 by Narada news portal, purportedly showing TMC leaders accepting bribes on camera.
'I have full faith in the judiciary. The BJP can employ anybody to harass me,' Hakim said outside the Nizam Palace.
CBI officials told me this was a politically sensitive case, all evidence, including tapes showing Adhikari accepting bribe and Mirza taking Rs 15 lakh for...
West Bengal ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee and TMC leader Madan Mitra were arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday in...
Mamata Banerjee told the CBI officers that the arrests were illegal and that the agency will have to arrest her too.
The Calcutta High Court had ordered a CBI probe into the sting operation in March 2017.
In 2014, the Narada scam made national headlines when Journalist Matthew Samuel conducted a sting operation in Kolkata.
With the assembly elections nearing, the CBI, ED, NIA get active against TMC leaders. The reaction? State police ups the ante against BJP.
The Narada tapes allegedly indicted several Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders, and ministers accepting cash for extending favour from a purported business in a...
