Lok Sabha ethics committee probing Narada sting feels the videos are genuine

Nearly a month back there were allegations leveled against some MPs of the Trinamul Congress (TMC) that they had accepted money from some agency - it was the Narada sting operation and the matter had been referred to the ethics committee of the Lok Sabha by the Speaker.
BJP MP Arjun Ram Meghwal who is a member of the Lok Sabha ethics committee has indicated that, prima facie, the video footage appear to be genuine and, therefore, notices have been sent to five Trinamul MPs.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 16 April 2016.

The five Trinamul MPs who have been sent notices have been members in the previous and current Lok Sabha. In case they do not respond to the notices, the ethics committee will go ahead with the probe. If it is proved that the transactions were unethical, they could be expelled.
Meghwal has gone on to add that the examination of the tapes is still on and the committee will look into all aspects before taking a decision. The Narada tapes had come to surface on March 14 and showed images resembling 11 Trinamul MPs, MLAs and ministers and three party functionaries accepting wads of cash from a journalist who was posing as the agent of a fictitious company.
The conversation in the Narada sting was, apparently, carried out before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and the release of the tapes ahead of the Assembly polls in Bengal has put Trinamul in a spot of bother.


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