New Delhi: The immigration officials has detained Mathew Samuel, the former managing editor of Tehelka magazine, at Indira Gandhi International Airport in the national capital on Saturday evening after he was landed following a look out notice by West Bengal police.
He was the one of the founding members of the magazine and after resigning from the organization in February, this year he started his own news portal -- Narada News. Just before West Bengal assembly election, his organization released a 24-minute video of a sting operation, purportedly showed 16 MLAs and five MPs and one senior police officer, close to the leaders, promising favours and accepting wads of currency notes from representatives of a fictitious firm. The five TMC parliamentarians shown in the sting video are Saugata Roy, Sultan Ahmad, Suvendu Adhikari, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Prasun Banerjee.
After TMC came into power, the chief Minister ordered a probe into the matter and he was summoned and thereafter a look out notice was issued against him.
Acting on the lookout notice issued by Kolkata police, immigration officials detained Samuel at the airport. He was detained soon after he landed at the airport from Dubai, Central Industrial Security Force sources said. He will be handed over to Calcutta Police team that is on way to Delhi.
"As soon as I landed at the airport from Dubai immigration officials detained me saying two look out notices were issued against me by Calcutta Police. I am under their custody right now and they told me that I will be handed over to Calcutta police team that is on its way," Samuel told Express.
06/08/16 New Indian Express
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He was the one of the founding members of the magazine and after resigning from the organization in February, this year he started his own news portal -- Narada News. Just before West Bengal assembly election, his organization released a 24-minute video of a sting operation, purportedly showed 16 MLAs and five MPs and one senior police officer, close to the leaders, promising favours and accepting wads of currency notes from representatives of a fictitious firm. The five TMC parliamentarians shown in the sting video are Saugata Roy, Sultan Ahmad, Suvendu Adhikari, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Prasun Banerjee.
After TMC came into power, the chief Minister ordered a probe into the matter and he was summoned and thereafter a look out notice was issued against him.
Acting on the lookout notice issued by Kolkata police, immigration officials detained Samuel at the airport. He was detained soon after he landed at the airport from Dubai, Central Industrial Security Force sources said. He will be handed over to Calcutta Police team that is on way to Delhi.
"As soon as I landed at the airport from Dubai immigration officials detained me saying two look out notices were issued against me by Calcutta Police. I am under their custody right now and they told me that I will be handed over to Calcutta police team that is on its way," Samuel told Express.
06/08/16 New Indian Express
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