Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court division bench will resume hearing soon on the appeal to vacate the stay on the bail plea of the four leade...
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court division bench will resume hearing soon on the appeal to vacate the stay on the bail plea of the four leaders - TMC ministers Subrata Mukherjee and Firhad Hakim, TMC MLA Madan Mitra and former Mayor Sovon Chatterjee.
The four leaders are
in judicial custody till Friday in connection with the Narada sting case. The Calcutta
High Court had adjourned the hearing till May 20 but now the hearing will not
take place on Thursday due to unavoidable circumstances.
After a hearing which
went for close to three hours on Wednesday, Calcutta High Court division bench
comprising acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and Justice Arijit Banerjee, heard
the appeal to vacate the stay on the bail plea of the four leaders along
with the CBI’s previous appeal.
Veteran lawyer
Abhishek Manu Singhvi had appeared for Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee while
Sovan Chatterjee was represented by Siddharth Luthra. The Solicitor General of
India, Tushar Mehta, represented the case on behalf of the CBI in virtual mode.
Asked by the Court
if it can be denied that CM was sitting on dharna outside the CBI office, Singhvi
said, “It was a means of democratic protest.”
The Calcutta High Court on Monday night had stayed the lower court's
decision to grant bail to the four leaders, arrested and charge-sheeted by the
CBI in the Narada sting operation case.
TMC moved the court
on Tuesday to vacate the stay on the bail of Subrata Mukherjee, Firhad Hakim
and Madan Mitra. Sovon Chatterjee has also separately appealed before the
Calcutta High Court to vacate the stay.
Niranjan
Bhattacharya, Madan Mitra’s lawyer said, “We have applied to vacate the stay on
the bail of the arrested TMC leaders and the application has been accepted but
Tushar Meheta purposely prolonged the case by going slow,”
On Wednesday, the CBI
made Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, MP Kalyan Banerjee and Law
Minister Malay Ghatak parties in the case, seeking transfer of the case to
Calcutta High Court.
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