The Central Bureau of Investigation started probing Narada sting operation after Calcutta High Court's directions. CBI officers collected the video footage from a nationalised bank's locker on Saturday before they met the register of the Calcutta high court on Saturday.
CBI has already made a special team to decode the language of the video footage. After decoding the language, the investigators would start the process of interrogation. As per the Calcutta high court directives, CBI would register an FIR in connection with the Narada sting operation after conducting a preliminary report which has to be concluded within 72 hours.
The probe agency will be registering the FIR depending on the result of the preliminary enquiry. A team lead by CBI SP Nagendra Prasad reached the city to probe the case and decode the 1428-minute video footage.
The court ordered a preliminary probe by the CBI into the Narada sting operation. The division Bench led by acting chief justice Nishita Mhatre and Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty directed the CBI to complete the preliminary probe within 72 hours. However, the court noted that the report sent by the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) in Chandigarh and Hyderabad mentioned that the footages were original and not tampered.
However, the Trinamool Congress will approach the Supreme Court to challenge the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the Narada sting. "Everyone knows this that the sting was published from the BJP office…we will approach the higher judiciary," Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged on Friday.
Banerjee also said that the Election Commission had allowed political parties to take donations worth Rs 1-2 lakh. Trinamool Congress had submitted the expenditure involved in the election along with the Income Tax documents to the Election Commission.
However, the head of Narada News, Mathew Samuel on Saturday claimed that CBI officers contacted him after the Calcutta high court directives. Samuel was in Kochi when the officers called him up.