Narada case | Calcutta High Court makes Bengal government a party
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Five-judge Bench is considering all issues, including bail to those arrested.
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Five-judge Bench is considering all issues, including bail to those arrested.
A five-judge Bench of Calcutta High Court on Thursday heard the Narada case and agreed to make the West Bengal government party to the case. The Bench, which will hear the application again on Friday, agreed to hear first the arguments of the recall application on the May 17 order, where the High Court had cancelled the bail granted to four persons arrested by a city court.
KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court on Thursday adjourned till Friday hearing in the Narada sting tape case, in which two senior West Bengal ministers, an MLA and a former Kolkata mayor were arrested by the CBI.
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.
A five-judge bench said that on Friday, it will first hear the recall applications by the four on the stay granted by a division bench on bail to them.
It will then hear the CBI s prayer for transfer of the case to itself alleging mob pressure on the Special CBI court that granted bail to the four politicians on May 17, hours after their arrest.
The Calcutta high court had ordered shifting of two West Bengal ministers, an MLA and a former Kolkata mayor to house arrest from jail, and modified the earlier order that stayed their bail granted by a special CBI when the four leaders were arrested.
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The Supreme Court Tuesday permitted the CBI to withdraw its appeal against the Calcutta High Court order allowing house arrest of four leaders, including three from the TMC, in the Narada bribery case.
A vacation bench comprising Justices Vineet Saran and B R Gavai took note of the fact that a five-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court is already hearing the Narada bribery case and permitted Solicitor General Tuahar Mehta, appearing for the CBI, to take back its appeal and raise all the grievances there in the high court.
âWe have not expressed any opinion on the merits of the case and our observations do not reflect our views on merits of the matter,â the bench said, adding that the West Bengal and leaders are also free to raise their submissions on the high court.