Top Trinamool Leaders Arrested In Narada Case Get Interim Bail Top Trinamool Leaders Arrested In Narada Case Get Interim Bail All the four accused - ministers Subrata Mukherjee and Firhad Hakim, Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra and former mayor Sovan Chatterjee - are currently under house arrest as per the High Court s order.
Bengal minister Firhad Hakim, who is former Kolkata Mayor, is among those arrested. (File)
New Delhi:
The Calcutta High Court on Friday granted interim bail to all the four Bengal politicians - including two ministers from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee s Trinamool Congress - arrested by the CBI in connection with the Narada bribery case. The bail was granted to them citing the lockdown in West Bengal.
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A five-member bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing of the bail application moved by four heavyweight Trinamool Congress leaders arrested in the Narada sting operations to Friday.The court decided to hear the recall .
The court decided to hear the recall applications filed by four arrested leaders against stay of their bail in the case, before hearing the larger issues raised by the CBI relating to the breakdown of rule of law in West Bengal and mob pressure on court.The
Harish Tandon, one of the judges in the bench, observed that there was no reason to believe that peoples emotions and protest cannot change or influence the judicial system. Justice Indra Prasanna Mukherjee wanted proof if the process of judicial system was influenced by the protestors.