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Narada Sting Operation
Narada Sting Operation was conducted by Mathew Samuel to expose high-ranking officials and politicians of the All India Trinamul Congress. The sting operation exposed all the persons persons including politicians and police officers accepting cash bribes in exchange for providing unofficial favours to a company. However, the All India Trinamool Congress rejected all the claims and stated that the money was taken by way of donations. The video clip of the alleged sting operation was released just before the West Bengal Assembly Elections in the year 2016.
In this case the Central Bureau of Investigation had arrested S.M.H Mirza, IPS Officer who was seen accepting cash in the video made by Mathew Samuel's team. Mr. Mirza was the first person with whom Samuel made contact as a businessman from Chennai. The video shows Mr. Mirza having a long conversation with Mr. Mathew Samuel sitting in a red sofa and saying that he has arranged "60 for him" allegedly referring to Mukul Roy who is the key face of Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) in the state. However, at the time of Narada Sting Operation he was a party member of All India Trinamool Congress. Many other leaders of the Trinamool Congress are seen accepting money like Subrata Mukherjee, Saugata Roy, Kakoli Ghosh, Aparupa Poddar, Prasun Banerjee and late Sultan Ahmed. Another person Sovan Chatterjee, TMCs Turncoat mayor who recently joined BJP. Mr. Mirza is the first person to be arrested and it is said that the counsel for Mr. Mirza would move a bail application very soon.
Mathew Samuel, the man behind this entire operation worked for the news-magazine Tehelka when he conducted this sting operation with his team. All the funding of this operation was made by K.D. Singh, a rajya Sabha Member of Parliament of Trinamool Congress who owns majority stake in the magazine in Tehelka. He is well known for investigative journalism and sting operation.
