Narada sting: CBI team visits TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar's Kolkata residence, she denies

Led by DSP Ranjit Kumar, the CBI officers went to the house of TMC MP from Barasat Lok Sabha constituency. The team is  currently interrogating Ghosh Dastidar, sources said.

Earlier on Thursday, CBI served a notice to Ghosh Dastidar, who was seen purportedly taking money in Narada sting footage, and had asked her to appear at the Central probe agency's office in south Kolkata's Nizam Palace on Monday (Jul 17) for interrogation.

However, the Trinamool lawmaker has claimed that no CBI official has  visited her residence on Friday.

"Neither any CBI team visited my place in Madhyamgram nor I was interrogated by the investigation agency today," she told IBNS.

Meanwhile, the CBI has served a notice to Mohammedan Sporting Club, one of the oldest and leading football clubs in Kolkata, asking its officials to visit its the agency's next week with all fund-related documents and audit reports, a source confirmed.

According to the source, as Kolkata deputy mayor Iqbal Ahmed told the CBI that the money, which he took from Narada CEO Mathew Samuel, was donated to the account of Mohammedan Sporting Club, the Central probe agency wants to examine club's documents.

Mohammedan Sporting Club's president TMC MP Sultan Ahmed, who was earlier interrogated by the CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the same case, claimed that his club did not receive any notice from the CBI.

"Mohammedan Sporting Club has not received any notice from neither the CBI nor the ED in connection with Narada case, this news is completely baseless," Sultan Ahmed told IBNS.

The CBI has already collected voice samples of TMC lawmakers Sultan Ahmed and Iqbal Ahmed from the archive of Doordarshan for holding lab tests to confirm if their voice samples match with Narada sting's audio recordings.

Since Mar 14 last year, news portal- Narada News- released several sting operation footage, where TMC's leaders, ministers, MPs and MLAs were exposed while allegedly taking bribes.

From the beginning, TMC leaderships had claimed that the sting footage was doctored and conspiracy of oppositions.  

After getting direction from the Calcutta High Court and Supreme Court, the CBI has started probe into the case.

Earlier on April 17, the investigation agency registered an FIR in connection with the case under several non-bailable sections against 12 influential leaders, cabinet ministers, MLAs and MPs of TMC and one senior IPS officer, who were seen taking bribes in the sting footage, reports said.

Besides CBI, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), has registered a money laundering case in Narada sting and it's currently investigating the case. 

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)