Kolkata: Clearing the way in which for the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to take senior Trinamool Congress chief Anubrata Mondal to Delhi for questioning in reference to a cattle smuggling case, the Calcutta High Court on Saturday put aside a petition by him difficult a manufacturing warrant issued by a particular CBI court docket. The court docket additionally ordered Mondal to pay a wonderful of Rs one lakh for discussion board procuring. Rejecting the petition by Mondal difficult a manufacturing warrant issued by the particular CBI court docket at Asansol in West Bengal, Justice Bibek Chaudhuri directed that the TMC Birbhum district president be taken to Delhi by air. He directed that docs posted in a central authorities hospital in Kolkata within the division of normal drugs, cardiology and normal surgical procedure will study Mondal and problem a medical certificates stating the situation of the well being of the petitioner earlier than he’s handed over to the ED.
Justice Chaudhari directed {that a} medical officer will accompany Mondal to Delhi and he will likely be examined medically by docs instantly after his arrival within the nationwide capital.
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It was directed that such medical papers be produced earlier than the trial court docket in Delhi on the time of the manufacturing of Mondal earlier than it.
The court docket mentioned that Mondal resorted to discussion board procuring by approaching excessive courts in Calcutta and Delhi to stop the ED from taking him to the nationwide capital.
Justice Chaudhari directed him to “pay compensatory cost of Rs one lakh in the High Court Legal Services Authority as a compensation for instituting successive, harassing applications of similar nature before the highest seat of judiciary of two states of the country to obviate the process of the court.”
The TMC chief was arrested by the ED in November final yr. He was taken into custody by the CBI within the cattle smuggling case in August 2022.
His lawyer moved the petition claiming that the order on the premise of which Mondal is sought to be shifted to Delhi is unhealthy in regulation and can’t be issued by the particular choose, CBI Court at Asansol.
