Narada News CEO Mathew Samuel yesterday accused the Kolkata police of harassment in the name of interrogation, and claimed the case against him was “planted and fabricated”.
“They are asking me questions that are irrelevant to the case they have summoned me for,” Samuel alleged.
“From day one I am saying that it is a fabricated, planted and prepared case by Kolkata police. Just one thing I want to tell you that it is the men in uniform who are asking me all these questions,” said Samuel, who went to the Calcutta High Court with his lawyer for consultation.
Samuel is being interrogated by the police in connection with an alleged extortion call to a former legislator from Bihar.
He was questioned at the Muchipara Police Station by senior officers of Kolkata police for nearly eight hours on June 22 and was asked to come back again for interrogation yesterday.
Earlier this month, Samuel was interrogated for three days at the police station in connection with the case.
Denouncing the role of the police, Samuel’s lawyer Arunava Ghosh said they were planning to lodge a case of police harassment by naming the officers involved in the interrogation.
“The officers at Muchipara Police Station are only interrogating him for four minutes and making him sit for the rest of the eight hours. They are saying they have instructions from Kolkata police headquarters - Lalbazar,” Ghosh alleged.
“We will file a case against them by mentioning who all were there in the interrogation panel. This includes the Officer-in-charge of the Muchipara Police Station and the Assistant Commissioner, who is heading the panel,” he added.
Police sources said Samuel was being questioned about his alleged connection with a person named Bikram Singh, who made the extortion call to former Bihar MP D P Yadav from a Kolkata lodge under the Muchipara Police Station’s jurisdiction.




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