Narada tapes case: CBI takes Mirza to Roy’s house for questioning

KOLKATA: CBI sleuths on Sunday took arrested IPS officer S.M.H. Mirza to the south Kolkata flat of BJP leader Mukul Roy in connection with the Narada sting footage probe.

A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officer said Mirza was taken to Roy’s third floor flat on Elgin Road for videography in the light of the clip in the footage where he was seen talking over phone with someone whom he assured that an amount of ~1.70 crore had been deposited at the right place.

The officer said the agency had taken Roy’s permission before coming to his flat and the former Union Minister was present and “cooperative” when Mirza was brought there.

“Roy was present. He was cooperative. We came here following permission given by him,” the officer told media persons at the spot.

A day after Roy - the accused number one in the FIR filed by the CBI on the sting footage case - was grilled for two and a half hours by the sleuths, Mirza was brought to the apartment under heavy security, with a large group of reporters and television camera persons crowding around.

A videographer engaged by the CBI captured every details of Mirza’s movement from the lane leading to the apartment complex right upto his stay inside the flat, where he was made to sit face-to-face with Roy.

“Videography was done as per identification by Mirza sahab that the huge cash transaction took place at this place,” the CBI officer told waiting media persons. Asked whether the amount was ~1.70 crore, he said: “The amount... huge amount”.

To another query on how Mirza got the cash, the officer said: “I don’t have any knowledge about that.”