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Narada bribery case: Calcutta HC grants bail to arrested Trinamool Congress leaders
The court dismissed Solicitor General Tushar Mehta’s arguments that the politicians are influential enough to affect the investigation into the case.
The Calcutta High Court on Friday granted interim bail to four Trinamool Congress leaders arrested in connection with the Narada bribery case,
Bar and Bench reported.
A five-judge bench, which includes Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and Justices IP Mukerji, Harish Tandon, Soumen Sen and Arijit Banerjee, heard a recall application filed by the four leaders against the stay of their bail.
The Central Bureau of Investigation had arrested West Bengal ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra and former party leader Sovan Chatterjee in connection with the case on May 17. They were granted interim bail by a special CBI court later that day. But, this bail order was stayed by a division bench of the High Court
Justice Arindam Sinha, a sitting judge of the Calcutta High Court, has written to other judges including acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal expressing his displeasure at the handling of the Narada bribery case involving Trinamool Congress leaders, reported
Bar and Bench.
“Our conduct is unbecoming of the majesty the High Court commands,” he said in the letter dated May 24. “We have been reduced to a mockery.”
Among other matters, Sinha raised objection to the manner in which a transfer plea filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the case was listed before a division bench of the Calcutta High Court as a writ petition. The investigating agency had filed the plea seeking to transfer the case outside of West Bengal.
Narada bribery case: CBI moves SC against Calcutta HC order allowing house arrest of TMC leaders
The central agency also sought that Monday’s hearing before the Calcutta High Court be adjourned. Image for representation. | Manjunath Kiran/ AFP
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Calcutta High Court order allowing the house arrest of four Trinamool Congress leaders in the Narada bribery case,
Live Law reported. The central agency also sought an adjournment of hearing at the Calcutta High Court, scheduled for Monday.
The Supreme Court is likely to hear the case around 10.30 am, according to NDTV.
West Bengal governor being used to create political instability, he must be recalled: Shiv Sena
In an editorial published in ‘Saamana’, the party said Jagdeep Dhankhar’s behaviour was ‘against the Constitution’. File photo of West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar. | IANS
The Shiv Sena on Wednesday demanded that West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar should be removed from his post and alleged that he was being used to create “political instability” in the state.
In an editorial published in its mouthpiece
Saamana, the Shiv Sena claimed that the behaviour of the governor was “against the Constitution”.
The allegations came in the wake of the Central Bureau of Investigation arrest of state ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra and former TMC leader Sovan Chatterjee in the Narada bribery case on Monday.