Kolkata: On Friday, a division bench of
Calcutta High Court (HC) put an interim stay order on the Kolkata Police’s ongoing
investigation into Narada Sting operation.
The division bench, comprising of Calcutta
HCs Chief Justice Manjulla Chellur and Justice Arijit Banerjee, has stayed the
parallel probe of Kolkata Polices Special Investigation Team (SIT) until next
date of hearing in this case.
CJ Manjulla Chellur on Friday also said that
forensic reports of raw tapes, which contains several positive sides and few
negative sides as well, had been submitted before the court from Central
Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL), Chandigarh.
The court has set August 19 as the next date
of hearing in the case. Since March 14, news portal Narada News released several sting operation footages, where TMCs
leaders, ministers, MPs and MLAs were exposed while allegedly taking bribes. From
the beginning, TMC leaderships had claimed that the sting footage was doctored
and conspiracy of oppositions.
Following West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjees direction, Kolkata Polices Special Investigation Team (SIT) had
started investigation into the matter.
It already quizzed senior IPS officer SMH
Mirza and Kolkata Deputy Mayor Iqbal Ahmed, and summoned Narada Newss CEO
Mathew Samuel thrice.
As the matter is sub-judicial in Calcutta
High Court, Mathew Samuel appealed to the court to put a stay on Kolkata
Polices probe. While hearing the matter on Friday, Chief Justices division
bench ordered the stay.
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