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Narada sting journalist surprised as to why Suvendu wasn't arrested?

KOLKATA: Mathew Samuel the journalist behind the Narada sting operation of 2014 in which the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today arrested two Trinamool Congress (TMC) ministers and one of its MLA along with a former party minister in connection with its probe into the scam expressed surprise that the CBI did not arrest former TMC minister Suvendu Adhikari.

Samuel claimed that he had paid the money to Suvendu Adhikari himself in his office. "His name is not in the list. I had gone through forensic tests and given statements regarding that. He (Adhikari) received the money from me. Why is he being kept out of the loop? The investigation should be fair,” Samuel said. 

Adhikari who is now an MLA of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Nandigram and the Leader of the Opposition in state Assembly was a minister in the Mamata Banerjee led TMC government, and earlier had won as an MP in 2009 and 2014 on TMC ticket. 

Senior ministers Subrata Mukherjee and Firhad Hakim and former ministers Madan Mitra, who is now an MLA, and Sovan Chatterjee, were arrested in the morning. They later secured bail from a CBI court in the evening.

Samuel said that steps against corruption are needed and investigations should be fair. According to Samuel Suvendhu Adhikari was one of the thirteen men named in the FIR filed by the CBI in the 2017 Narada case.

Another name of the current national vice-president of the BJP and former TMC MP Mukul Roy who also figured in the 52 hours of footage photographed by Samuel, and also named in the said FIR is not part of the current investigation.

Although Mukul Roy Roy who was a TMC Rajya Sabha member in 2014 was introduced to Samuel by IPS officer S. M. H. Mirza was not seen accepting cash in the video footage, but he was seen asking Samuel to visit his party office with the promised cash.

Pics: Suvendu Adhikari, Mukul Roy and Mathew Samuel


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