Narada Case : Live Updates From Calcutta High Court Hearing On TMC Leaders' Bail

Acting CJ Bindal : We will allow the prayer to implead State of West Bengal as respondent in the case.

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Solicitor General asks the bench if it would want him to start arguments right away or to lay down the issues first.

"Just give me a one-minute break", Acting CJ Rajesh Bindal replies.

Judges are conferring.

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Advocate General requests bench to pass an order adding State of West Bengal as a party in the case, before arguments start.

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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta says he is making an oral request for adding State as a party in the case.

He said state was not made a party based on the principle that in a case between prosecuting agency and accused, state need not be a party.

Hearing commences.

Advocate General informs the bench that the CBI's SLP before the Supreme Court has been withdrawn.

AG says that in SLP, State of West Bengal was made a party but in the petition in HC, state is not a party.