Narada Case : Live Updates From Calcutta High Court Hearing On TMC Leaders' Bail
The Calcutta High Court is hearing the Narada case related to the bail of four Trinamool Congress leaders - Firhad Hakim, Madan Mitra, Subrata Mukherjee and Sovan Chatterjee- who have been under judicial custody since their arrest by the CBI on May 17.A 5-judge bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal, Justices IP Mukerji, Harish Tandon, Soumen Sen and Arijit Banerjee is hearing...
The Calcutta High Court is hearing the Narada case related to the bail of four Trinamool Congress leaders - Firhad Hakim, Madan Mitra, Subrata Mukherjee and Sovan Chatterjee- who have been under judicial custody since their arrest by the CBI on May 17.
A 5-judge bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal, Justices IP Mukerji, Harish Tandon, Soumen Sen and Arijit Banerjee is hearing the case. The arrested leaders - two of them ministers and one of them an MLA- were placed under house arrest by a division bench on May 19.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta (for CBI), Senior Advocates Dr AM Singhvi, Sidharth Luthra and Kalyan Bandopadhyaya (for TMC leaders) and Advocate General Kishore Dutta are appearing in the the matter.
Stay on this page for minute-by-minute live updates from the hearing.
Acting CJ Bindal says the judgments shared by Solicitor General in a google drive were not downloading.
SG says he will request the Additional Solicitor General in Chandigarh to serve them physically at Justice Bindal's residence. (Justice Bindal is at Chandigarh now).
Justice Soumen Sen requests the lawyers to send a one-page note on what they are going to argue tomorrow.
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Singhvi seeks posting at tomorrow 2 PM.
Bandopadhyay seeks posting at 11 AM and says he can start first if Singhvi has difficulty.
Singhvi requests posting at 12 noon.
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Solicitor General : I have a legal answer. They are not yet chargesheeted.
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Bandopadhyay : Then Mr.Solicotor, why Mukul Roy and Suvendhu Adhikari are not made parties. Just because they joined BJP?
Solicitor General : I can only answer legal questions.
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Acting CJ Bindal asks if Meerza is a necessary party in this case.
SG : Since we are seeking transfer, all accused must be made a party.
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Acting CJ Bindal says additional parties have been served.
AG says he is not appearing for SH Meerza.
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Bench re-assembles.
Acting CJ Bindal : We will hear the recall applications tomorrow morning.
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Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal to other judges : Let us have a word for five minutes.
Judges have taken a break to discuss.
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Justice Soumen Sen : The apprehension expressed by the accused is whether the bail granted to them, whether personal liberty granted to them, can be infringed without issuing notice to them, without hearing them.
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