CBI calls Roy again; former TMC leader seeks time

Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has again summoned former Trinamul Congress Rajya Sabha MP Mukul Roy in the Narada sting operation case. He, however, sought time.

According to sources, the CBI’s anti-corruption branch wants to conduct a reconstruction at Mr Roy’s residence at Gurusaday Dutta Road in south Kolkata where former Narada editor-in-chief Mathew Samuel visited twice to conduct the sting on him. 

Sources claimed that Mr Roy on Friday received a call for the enactment of the reconstruction which requires his presence. But the former MP conveyed his unavailability citing his preoccupation, sources added. The CBI’s call to Mr Roy came close on the heels of his resignation from the Rajya Sabha MP’s post and his exit from the Trinamul amidst a speculation of joining the BJP. 

Significantly after his resignation from the MP’s post he claimed that he would always cooperate with the central agencies in their probe in the chit fund scams. 

Mr Roy, however, later asserted that he was none to give clean chit to anyone as the central agencies have been investigating in the cases on the direction of the Supreme Court.