Bengal Governor okayed CBI's request seeking sanction to prosecute 3 TMC MLAs on May 7: Report

On May 7, West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar approved the CBI's request to prosecute three TMC MLAs, including ministers, in the Narada sting case.

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar gave his assent to CBI's request seeking sanction for prosecution of four political leaders, including three from the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), in connection with the Narada sting case on May 7, two days after Mamata Banerjee was sworn in as chief minister for the third time, officials said on Monday. They said the CBI approached the governor's office seeking permission to prosecute Trinamool Congress MLAs Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee and Madan Mitra, as well as former party leader Sovan Chatterjee in view of a 2004 Supreme Court judgement in which the top court had agreed that the governor could give sanction for prosecution. The officials said that the agency approached the governor's office as the four were ministers in the previous government at time of the Narada sting case in which politicians were purportedly caught taking money on camera.