The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday prayed earlier than the Calcutta High Court that it cancel the proceedings held earlier than the particular CBI courtroom following the arrest of two West Bengal ministers, an MLA and a former metropolis mayor in the Narada sting tape case. Seeking switch of the Narada sting tape case from the decrease courtroom to the excessive courtroom, the investigating company claimed earlier than a five-judge bench that stress was created on that courtroom which granted bail to the 4 accused.
Appearing for the CBI, Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta mentioned that the state chief minister sat on a dharna on the company’s workplace on May 17 following the arrests and a mob of hundreds of individuals gheraoed the workplace complicated at Nizam Palace right here. Mehta urged the courtroom to declare your entire proceedings earlier than the particular CBI courtroom on that day as unhealthy in regulation on account of that stress and cancel the proceedings.
The Solicitor General submitted that central and state ministers have been arrested on earlier events additionally, however by no means has such a scenario emerged anyplace else. He mentioned that justice shouldn’t solely be accomplished however also needs to be seen to be accomplished.
The five-judge bench, comprising Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and justices I P Mukerji, Harish Tandon, Soumen Sen and Arijit Banerjee, adjourned listening to in the matter until Wednesday. The five-judge bench granted interim bail on May 28 to ministers Subrata Mukherjee and Firhad Hakim, Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra and former Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee, who have been arrested on May 17 by the CBI, which is investigating the Narada sting tape case on a 2017 order of the excessive courtroom.
The particular CBI courtroom had granted them bail on that day itself, however the order was stayed by the excessive courtroom, which remanded them to judicial custody. They had been positioned below home arrest on May 21 by the excessive courtroom, modifying its earlier order of keep on the bail.
The Narada sting operation was carried out by journalist Mathew Samuel of Narada News, an online portal, in 2014 whereby some individuals resembling TMC ministers, MPs and MLAs have been seen receiving cash from representatives of a fictitious firm in lieu of favours. At that point, the 4 arrested politicians have been ministers in the Mamata Banerjee authorities.
The sting operation was made public forward of the 2016 meeting elections in West Bengal.
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