West Bengal minister, Trinamool Congress’ Subrata Mukherjee on Monday went to the office of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for recording his voice in connection with the Narada probe.
He is among several Trinamool Congress leaders whose voice sample is being recorded to compare with the available audio-visual records of the Narada tapes. IPS officer SMH Mirza also went to the CBI office today to get his voice recorded.
The CBI has already sought permission of the Lok Sabha Speaker to prosecute Trinamool Congress MPs Sougata Roy, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Prasun Banerjee in connection with the Narada sting operations of 2016.
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In the videos recorded by journalist Matthew Samuel, several individuals – including Mukul Roy and Sovon Chatterjee who are now with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – and Trinamool Congress’ Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee, Sougata Roy, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Prasun Banerjee, IPS officer SMH Mirza and others, were seen purportedly discussing receiving cash from a journalist who posed as a person with business interests in Bengal. The videos were shown on Narada TV and have come to be known as the Narada scandal.
The CBI has also summoned Sovon Chatterjee and Aparupa Poddar in November in connection with the same investigation. Trinamool leaders and state ministers Subrata Mukherjee and Subhendu Adhikary have also been called by the CBI for interrogation in the same case.
