Narada sting case: WB Governor provides sanction to CBI to prosecute 4 TMC leaders

West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankar has on Sunday accorded sanction to the CBI, for the prosecution of West Bengal politicians Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee, Madan Mitra and Sovan Chatterjee (who had left the Trinamool and joined the BJP however has dissociated himself from the BJP too) within the Narada sting operation case.
Interestingly, all 4 ministers have been part of Mamata Banerjee’s cabinet when their identify appeared within the Narada sting tapes scandal in 2014.
A press release issued by the officer on particular obligation (communication), Raj Bhavan mentioned that the sanction for prosecution of the 4 leaders was accorded by the WB Governor after the CBI had made a request for a similar. The central company additionally made obtainable whole documentation related to the case to Dhankar, who then invoked his powers below Article 163 and 164 of the Constitution, being the competent authority to accord such sanction.
Speaking concerning the determination, a Raj Bhavan official mentioned on Sunday: “Honourable governor is the competent authority to accord sanction in terms of law as he happens to be the appointing authority for such ministers in terms of Article 164 of the Constitution.” 
Dhankar’s determination, which comes hours after Subrata Mukherjee, Madan Mitra, and Firhad Hakim have been re-elected as MLAs within the lately concluded state Assembly elections. Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee are to be sworn in Mamata Banerjee’s cabinet on Monday as their names function within the record of 43 names of ministers launched by TMC.
What was the Narada sting operation case
The Narada sting operation case, because the identify suggests, was a collection of sting operations carried out by Narada information portal chief Mathew Samuel in West Bengal to reveal the corrupt practices of ministers within the Mamata Banerjee authorities.
The tapes of the sting operation have been shot over a interval of two years starting within the 12 months 2014. The sting was earlier to be revealed in Tehelka journal. It was carried out by Matthew Samuel who later stop Tehelka and launched his personal TV channel in West Bengal.
The tapes of the sting operation was made public earlier than the 2016 meeting elections in West Bengal.
In the tapes, a number of prime Trinamool leaders have been seen accepting bribes for serving to the corporate.
Besides these 4 leaders, there was a number of different Trinamool Congress leaders, particularly, former Kolkata Municipal Corporation deputy mayor Iqbal Ahmed, Trinamool MPs Aparupa Poddar, Saugata Roy, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Prasun Banerjee and Sultan Ahmed (he handed away in 2017), former minister Madan Mitra, and Sujay Bhadra and Karan Sharma (shut aides of Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek), Mukul Roy and Suvendu Adhikari (each with the BJP now), who have been named within the rip-off.
The accused initially had disputed the contents of the tapes however when the Central Forensic Laboratory confirmed the authenticity of the tape, the Trinamool leaders mentioned that they’d taken the cash for charitable functions and for the occasion’s coffers.
The Calcutta High Court had ordered a CBI probe into the sting operation in March, 2017.