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
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.
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