Bengal Minister Sovan Chatterjee deposes before CBI officials to face query on Narada scam

Kolkata, Sep 7: West Bengal minister for fire brigade and environment Sovan Chatterjee, accused of taken money from Narada CEO Mathew Samuel - now known as Narada sting operation, today deposed before the CBI investigating officials at Nizam Palace in the city, a day after senior-most Trinamool Congress leader and MP Professor Saugata Roy was grilled for over six hours in the same case. Fifty-three-year-old Sovan Chatterjee, also the Mayor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), last month was quizzed by another central investigating agency - Enforcement Directorate - for over 8 hours last month. ED also probing the money trail of Narada sting operations. With Mr Chatterjee, the CBI quizzed three TMC leaders, including former India football star Prasun Banerjee, also MP from Howrah, for past three days and 4th TMC leader in eight days. On August 31 the CBI questioned TMC MP Aparupa Poddar at her resident in the Hooghly in relations to Narada sting operation. Mr Chatterjee today arrived around 1050 hours at CBI's local headquarters in response to three summon notices and is like to face barrage of questions if he at all know the Narada CEO, and who introduced to him and if did take money and so on so forth. Mr Chatterjee has been accused of taken Rs 4 lakh from the Narada CEO, which had been documented during the sting operations. The CBI filed an FIR naming 12 TMC leaders and one IPS officer SMH Mirza in the Narada sting scam. UNI