Narada sting case: Special CBI court grants bail to TMC ministers, MLA

A special CBI court has granted bail to two TMC ministers, one party MLA and a former minister, arrested earlier in the day in connection with the Narada sting case.

A special CBI court in Kolkata on Monday granted bail to all four accused arrested earlier in the day in connection with the Narada sting case. The CBI had arrested the ruling Trinamool Congress leaders and ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, TMC MLA Madan Mitra and former party leader and minister Sovon Chatterjee on Monday morning. As per the CBI, the four leaders were arrested for allegedly "demanding and accepting illegal gratification to show favour to a private person who was posing as a representative of a fictitious company". The alleged act was captured on camera. The tapes were released before the 2016 Bengal Assembly polls.