Calcutta HC grants interim bail to TMC leaders arrested in Narada case High court imposes certain conditions on heavyweights who furnished bonds of Rs 2 lakh each
A five-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday granted interim bail to the quartet of Subrata Mukherjee, Firhad Hakim, Madan Mitra and Sovan Chatterjee under judicial custody since May 17 in connection with the Narada bribery sting operation case.
The five-judge bench comprising acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal, Justices IP Mukerji, Harish Tandon, Soumen Sen and Arijit Mukherjee while granting interim bail has expressly barred the four - two ministers, a legislator and a politician without a political party - not to give interviews on the case or hold any discussions on it in the media.
A day when the five-member bench of the Calcutta High Court granted bail to heavyweight Trinamool Congress leaders accused in Narada bribery case, a letter surfaced from a judge who strongly objected to manner in which the transfer plea filed .
âWe have been reduced to a mockeryâ: Calcutta HC judgeâs letter to Acting Chief Justice
Sitting judge of Calcutta HC Justice, Arindam Sinha, objected to the manner in which the CBIâs transfer plea in Narada case was listed before a Division Bench as a writ petition
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Arindam Sinha, a sitting judge of Calcutta High Court, wrote a letter to Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and other judges of the High Court, objecting to the manner in which the transfer plea filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Narada case was listed before a Division Bench as a writ petition.