Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) – the premier investigative company of the nation on Sunday acquired the approval of West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar to prosecute Trinamool Congress leaders Sovan Chatterjee, Firhad Hakim, Madan Mitra and Subrata Mukherjee within the Narada sting tapes.“Governor accorded sanction for prosecution of Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee, Madan Mitra & Sovan Chatterjee being appointing authority of Ministers @MamataOfficial under Article 164 & thus competent authority Media reports that sanction was for being MLA is incorrect,” Governor Jagdeep Dhankar tweeted on Sunday.Governor accorded sanction for prosecution of Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee, Madan Mitra & Sovan Chatterjee being appointing authority of Ministers @MamataOfficial beneath Article 164 & thus competent authorityMedia reviews that sanction was for being MLA is inaccurate. pic.twitter.com/vqEg7Cv6OW— Governor West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankhar (@jdhankhar1) May 9, 2021The assertion additional reads, “CBI had made a request and made available entire documentation relevant to the case to the governor and he invoked his power under articles 163 and 164 of the Constitution, being the competent authority to accord sanction.”All of the aforementioned leaders have been ministers in the course of the time of the alleged fee of the crime that got here to gentle within the purported tapes. Three of those leaders have been ministers in Mamata’s state cabinet on the time, whereas Madan Mitra was Sports and Transport minister between 2011 and 2015.Read More: Six BJP staff slaughtered in two days and the get together’s weak response doesn’t go well with it beneath the management of Amit ShahJust to jog the reader’s reminiscence a bit, the sting tapes have been made public earlier than the 2016 meeting elections in West Bengal, and have been claimed to have been shot in 2014. The footage of those sting operations, confirmed 12 TMC leaders and ministers taking bribe. Some fictitious firms have been set as much as facilitate financial transactions to the TMC leaders to achieve authorities favour.Among the leaders caught on digicam have been Subrata Mukherjee, Sovan Chatterjee, Madan Mitra and Firhad Hakim. Thereafter, the Calcutta HC ordered a preliminary probe by the CBI in March of 2017. While final yr, TMC MP Aparupa Poddar submitted paperwork to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in reference to the Narada tapes rip-off wherein she was additionally one of many accused.The proven fact that Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar gave his accordance a day earlier than these leaders have been sworn in as cabinet and state ministers ought to converse volumes about his willpower to interact in a direct fistfight with Mamata. During Mamata’s swearing-in ceremony, the governor had given her a rap on the knuckle by elevating the difficulty of violence within the state the place a number of BJP staff have been allegedly slaughtered by the TMC goons.