Narada sting: Calcutta HC orders CBI probe against TMC leaders

Calcutta High Court ordered ​Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe Narada sting operation on Friday. The HC directed CBI to conclude preliminary inquiry within 72 hours and register FIR, if required. 

A Division Bench of acting Chief Justice Nishita Mhatre and Justice T Chakraborty passed the order.

Narada sting operation videos were made public in March 2016, ahead of the Assembly elections and consequently, a number of Public Interest Litigations (PILs) were filed at the division bench of the then Chief Justice Manjulla Chellur.

The videos showed many TMC leaders, ministers and an IPS officer allegedly accepting money from a reporter who had posed as a businessman. The CM had reacted saying that the sting operation had been engineered with the intention of creating a negative impression in the voters’ minds.