The Narada sting operation was carried out by Mathew Samuel, the founder of Narada News, in West Bengal for more than two years.
A special court on Wednesday ordered summons to West Bengal ministers Subrata Mukherjee and Firhad Hakim besides three others after taking cognizance of the Enforcement Directorate’s complaint under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in the Narada sting tape case.
The special CBI judge had ordered the accused to appear on November 16.
Besides two ministers and Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra, cognizance was also taken against former Kolkata Mayor Sovan Chatterjee and suspended IPS officer SMH Mirza.
The court directed that the summons be sent to Mukherjee, Hakim and Mitra through the office of the Speaker of the West Bengal Assembly as all three are MLAs. The court directed that the summons be sent to the other two directly at their addresses.
The Narada sting operation was carried out by Mathew Samuel, the founder of Narada News, in West Bengal for more than two years. Samuel created a fictitious company and approached several TMC ministers, MPs and politicians for help. Many of them are shown taking money in TV footage.
In May this year, the CBI had arrested Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee, Madan Mitra and Sovan Chatterjee in the Narada bribery case.
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