All Four Leaders Arrested In Narada Case Will Be House Arrest
All four leaders arrested in the Narada case will be House arrest, Calcutta High Court verdict: Narada Sting Operation Case.
Four leaders, including two ministers of the Mamta Banerjee government, arrested in the Narada sting operation case, will remain house arrests.
This order has been given by the Calcutta High Court on Friday. Hearing the bail plea filed by the four leaders arrested by the CBI on Monday, the bench of the Chief Justice of the High Court granted conditional bail to the four.
But the court directed all four to stay in the house arrest. Now, these four leaders will remain under house arrest instead of jail custody.
Without the permission of the court, these people will not be able to get out of the house at present. Earlier in the High Court, the hearing on the bail petition of these people was postponed a day earlier.
At the same time, a hearing was held for two and a half hours in the High Court on Wednesday.
Explain that CBI arrested two heavyweight ministers of Trinamool Congress Subrata Mukherjee and Firhad Hakim, including MLA Madan Mitra and former minister Shobhan Chatterjee, in the Narada bribery scandal on Monday.
After that evening, the CBI court granted bail to these four leaders in the evening. But a few hours after this, the Kolkata High Court late night, while staying on bail, sent these four leaders to jail custody.
What is the case of Narada sting operation.
In 2014, Narada News Channel CEO Matthew Samuel conducted a sting operation for a total of 12 leaders of the ruling Trinamool Congress.
These included seven MPs at the time, four ministers in the Mamata Banerjee government and one Trinamool MLA.
The sting alleges that all these leaders were caught on camera taking a bribe of Rs 5-5 lakh from a fictitious company. These tapes were made public only a few years before the 2016 Bengal Assembly elections.
The Calcutta High Court ordered a CBI inquiry into the matter in March 2017. The names of the 12 accused include Suvendu Adhikari and Mukul Roy, who were earlier in the Trinamool Congress but have now joined the BJP.
