A day when the five-member bench of the Calcutta High Court granted bail to heavyweight Trinamool Congress leaders accused in Narada bribery case, a letter surfaced from a decide who strongly objected to method wherein the switch plea filed by the CBI within the case was listed earlier than a division bench as a writ petition.
Justice Arindam Sinha, a sitting decide of the High Court who has been half of the Narada listening to proper from the start, wrote a letter to Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal, criticising the way wherein the courtroom entertained the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) plea for staying the decrease courtroom’s ruling that granted bail to the arrested politicians.
“Our conduct is unbecoming of the majesty the excessive courtroom instructions. We have been lowered to a mockery,” Justice Sinha wrote in his letter.
In his two-page letter, a copy of which is available with IANS, Justice Sinha wrote that the Appellate Side Rules of the High Court, which govern the procedure of listing such matters, require that a motion seeking transfer either on the civil or the criminal side, has to be heard by a single judge.