The CBI had moved the Supreme Court challenging the high court’s order to put the quartet under house arrest till the larger bench issued the verdict on the case
Kolkata: May 28: In a significant development in the Narada sting operation case, a freshly constituted five-judge Division Bench granted interim bail to the four arrested Trinamool leaders Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee, Madan Mitra and Sovon Chatterjee, on Friday.
The bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal, and Justices Arijit Banerjee, I.P. Mukherjee, Harish Tandon and Soumen Sen asked the two state cabinet ministers, an MLA and a former Kolkata Mayor to submit personal bond of Rs 2 lakh each with two sureties.
The court also said that the accused cannot tamper or influence evidence and will have to join the investigation by video conferencing.