ED registers money laundering case in connection with Narada sting operation involving TMC leaders
ED's action comes after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) last week filed an FIR against 13 people, including senior TMC leaders who were purportedly seen taking money in the Narada sting footage.
Twelve Trinamool Congress leaders, including Mukul Roy and Madan Mitra, have been booked by the CBI in the sensational sting operation.
The tapes were broadcast on a portal Naradanews.com before the last Assembly elections and generated much heat prompting the BJP and other opposition parties to go for a full offensive against the Trinamool Congress and its supremo Mamata Banerjee.
Banerjee, however, has described it fake and a "hideous" manoeuvre by the BJP.
The ED move coincided the start of a fresh battle between the two parties as Mamata Banerjee on Thursday, "accepted the BJP challenge," saying she would go for capturing Delhi if the party in power at the Centre tried to dislodge her party in West Bengal.
Her war cry came during BJP President Amit Shah's visit to the state and his campaign to push BJP as an alternative to the TMC.
On the Narada sting issue, Shah, however, rejected on Wednesday TMC's charge that a conspiracy was hatched to frame its party leaders in corruption cases.
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