Calcutta HC asks Narada CEO Samuel if he's open to narco test
Mr Dutta submitted that a laptop, mobile phones and SIM cards were recovered from the lodge under the Muchipara police station area earlier this year.
Kolkata: The Calcutta high court on Wednesday asked Narada News CEO Mathew Samuel if he was willing to undergo a narco-analysis test before the Kolkata Police in connection with a case of extortion in which he is an accused.
Directing him to inform the court by November 9 on whether he was open to the test, Justice Debangshu Basak asked the Kolkata police “not to alter the situation” till then.
Justice Basak noted that the Narada News head had invited investigators to hold a narco test and gave the direction when Samuel’s counsel told the court he would have to take instructions from his client in this regard.
Mr Samuel had conducted a sting operation which showed people resembling senior Trinamul Congress leaders receiving money allegedly in exchange for future favours. The sting case is being investigated by the CBI on a Supreme Court order.
Claiming that the Kolkata police was harassing him in the name of an investigation into an extortion case, Mr Samuel had moved the high court praying that the probe be transferred to the CBI.
Alleging that Samuel was not cooperating with the probe into the case of extortion calls made to a Bihar political leader from a lodge here, advocate-general Kishore Dutta submitted that an accused could not dictate terms on how an investigation had to be carried out.
Mr Dutta submitted that a laptop, mobile phones and SIM cards were recovered from the lodge under the Muchipara police station area earlier this year.