Narada Case: Calcutta HC Grants Interim Bail To All 4 Accused Including WB Ministers Subrata Mukherjee & Firhad Hakim

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court has granted interim bail to 2 West Bengal ministers Subrata Mukherjee and Firhad Hakim, TMC MLA Madan Mitra and former metropolis mayor Sovan Chatterjee, arrested by CBI within the Narada sting tapes case.

The five-judge bench of the High Court requested them to furnish private bonds of Rs 2 lakh every with two sureties. They have been directed to affix the investigation by video conferencing as and when required.

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The 4 accused have been requested to not give press interviews, make any remark in public or in media on pending trial on the Narada case.

The five-judge bench contains Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and justices I P Mukerji, Harish Tandon, Soumen Sen and Arijit Banerjee.

The 4 leaders had been arrested on the morning of May 17 by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is investigating the Narada sting tapes case on a 2017 order of the Calcutta High Court.

A particular CBI courtroom had granted interim bail to the 4 accused on May 17, however a division bench of the excessive courtroom – comprising Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and Justice Arijit Banerjee – stayed the choice later that day after which the leaders had been despatched to judicial custody. 

After that, the accused had been despatched to accommodate arrest as an alternative of judicial custody.

The CBI on Tuesday withdrew its attraction filed in Supreme Court towards the Calcutta High Court of inserting the accused TMC leaders in home arrest.

According to preliminary experiences, the investigating company took again its attraction after the apex courtroom mentioned it could be higher if CBI withdraws its attraction for the reason that matter wass pending earlier than the 5-judge bench of the Calcutta HC.

While making the observations, the highest courtroom famous that it didn’t approve the conduct of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and different leaders laying siege of the CBI workplace in Kolkata and thronging the trial courtroom with supporters.

The Supreme Court had additionally identified that CBI is free to take motion towards Mamata Banerjee, legislation minister or anybody it thinks has tried to subvert the rule of legislation and tried to create a legislation and order state of affairs.