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News Desk: A special CBI court in Kolkata on Monday granted bail to all four accused arrested earlier in the day in connection with the Narada sting case.
The CBI had arrested the ruling Trinamool Congress leaders and ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, TMC MLA Madan Mitra and former party leader and minister Sovon Chatterjee on Monday morning.
As per the CBI, the four leaders were arrested for allegedly “demanding and accepting illegal gratification to show favour to a private person who was posing as a representative of a fictitious company”. The alleged act was captured on camera. The tapes were released before the 2016 Bengal Assembly polls.
CBI likely to move HC to quash bails
The sources in the CBI have told that the central probe agency may approach Calcutta High Court to seek quashing of the bail granted to the four accused leaders by the special CBI court.
The CBI was tasked with investigating the Narada sting scam by the Calcutta High Court in March 2017.
Sore losers: Firhad Hakim slams BJP
Minutes after being granted bail in the Narada sting case, TMC leader and Bengal minister Firhad Hakim termed the day’s events a result of BJP’s vendetta politics.
The TMC leader claimed that the BJP indulged in vendetta politics as it could not accept its loss in the recently concluded assembly elections.
“Today was not only a day to harass and do vendetta against me and my colleagues but also it was BJP unleashing its vengeance on the people of Bengal. Their Sore Loss and anger on people of Bengal for voting TMC with landslide margins,” Firhad Hakim said.
Hakim claimed that the BJP chose to stall the Covid work to gain control over Bengal. “For them, power and possession of Bengal matter more than the death of lakhs of people in our country,” he said.
“The fabricated 2014 alleged case of a sting operation which involves a few lakhs hasn’t been proven, and its is picked up before elections to harass us. Now it’s picked for vengeance against people voting TMC to power,” Hakim said in a social media post.
In an indirect jibe at Suvendu Adhikari and Mukul Roy, the TMC leader claimed that the CBI did not target those leaders who left the party and joined the BJP.
“My colleagues who bent down to their pressure tactics and joined BJP are spared from arrest today and harassment by CBI. BJP has stooped so low that the country is losing its countrymen while they are only concentrating on political vendetta,” he said.
