Narada case: Calcutta High Court hearing again tomorrow, no bail for 4 leaders today
The four leaders were arrested by the CBI on Monday.
The Calcutta High Court will hear the petitions by ministers Subrata Mukherjee and Firhad Hakim and Trinamool MLA Madan Mitra and former Kolkata Mayor Sovon Chatterjee on Thursday again. They had appealed for the recall of the order staying bail granted by a CBI court for their arrest on Monday. Their bail applications have not yet been granted as the hearing will continue.
On Monday morning, the leaders were arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Narada case.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and state law minister Moloy Ghatak were made parties in a petition by the CBI before the Calcutta High Court seeking transfer of the Narada sting tape case from the state.
A division bench presided by acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal had fixed the matter for hearing at 2 pm today. Other than Banerjee and Ghatak, the CBI also made Trinamool Congress MP and lawyer Kalyan Banerjee a party in its petition before the high court.
Representing the CBI, Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta has said the division bench of Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and Justice Arijit Banerjee that an extraordinary situation had evolved, with the chief minister of the state sitting on a dharna outside the office of the investigating agency here. The CBI also claimed that the law minister of West Bengal was present in court, where the accused were to be presented, and a group of people were protesting outside.
The CBI had said that a number of followers of the arrested political leaders gheraoed the CBI office in Nizam Palace area, and did not allow its officers to move out to enable them to produce the accused in court. However, the court was informed that police had offered to create a “green corridor” for the officers, but they had not availed the facility.
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