Kolkata: A five-member bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday granted interim bail to the heavyweight TMC leaders against two lakh rupees personal bond over the Narada bribery case.
According to TMC MP and advocate Kalyan Banerjee, the acting Justice Rajesh Bindal has asked the leaders not to speak in front of the media regarding the Narada bribery case till the investigation is on.
“Against two lakh personal bonds the leaders are granted bail but they are not allowed to speak in front of the media regarding the case,” said Kalyan.
Advocate Manishankar Chatterjee said that Solicitor General Tushar Mehta even on Friday urged the larger bench that if bail is granted then the heavyweight leaders might tamper with the witnesses.
“Justice Indraprasanna Mukherjee asked the solicitor general that the case is going on from 2017 and if they had to resort to unscrupulous means then they would have done by now and also in this trying time they need to run the administration,” said Manishankar also adding that acting Justice Rakesh Bindal had assured the solicitor general that the case will not take a back seat.
It is pertinent to mention that earlier due to difference in opinion between Justice Arijit Bandhopadhyay and acting justice Rakesh Bindal the TMC leaders were sent to house arrest and the two TMC ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee were allowed to take part in administrative work virtually.
It can be recalled that on May 25 a day after moving the Supreme Court, the CBI had to withdraw that application after the apex court had instructed the CBI to continue with the Calcutta High Court.
Notably, on May 17 TMC ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee along with TMC legislature Madan Mitra and former TMC minister Sovan Chatterjee was arrested by the CBI from their residence and despite getting bail from the lower court the CBI approached the Calcutta High Court which had stayed the bail and had sent the leaders to judicial custody and then later to house arrest.
