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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.
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.
The Calcutta High Court has referring the case to a Bench of five judges
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has approached the Supreme Court against a Calcutta High Court direction to place under house arrest four Trinamool Congress leaders accused in the Narada sting tapes case.
On Friday, following a split verdict on the bail of Sovan Chatterjee, Subrata Mukherjee, Firhad Hakim and Madan Mitra, a Division Bench of the High Court ordered them to be put under house arrest while referring the case to a Bench of five judges.
The four have been in custody since May 17.
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UPDATED: May 25, 2021 00:33 IST
The four TMC leaders arrested by CBI and later placed under house arrest in connection with the Narada sting case (Photo Credits: PTI)