The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested Trinamool Congress ministers, Subrata Mukherjee and Firhad Hakim, sitting MLA Madan Mitra and former mayor Sovan Chatterjee, in connection with the Narada sting operation of 2016, but were granted bail by the CBI special court.
Early in the day, the ministers and leaders were picked up from their homes and taken to the CBI office at Nizam Palace in Kolkata.
Opposing the arrest, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee arrived at the scene and reportedly said MLAs cannot be arrested without the permission of the Speaker and the state government, and
