CBI files FIR against 13 TMC leaders in Narada case, Mamata cries foul

Footage showed TMC leaders accepting cash promising favours to a fictitious company

In what could be a major bother for the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a first information report (FIR) against Trinamool Congress leaders allegedly taped while taking a bribe. 

Thirteen members of parliament (MPs) and the state legislative assembly (MLAs) of the party who featured in the video footage taken by a news portal, Narada, have been named in the FIR and charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act and for conspiracy. Some are ministers in the Mamata cabinet.

The video footage, part of a sting operation done by the portal,