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

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27 May 2021 2:04 PM IST

  • 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.

    Live Updates

    • 27 May 2021 2:39 PM IST

      Solicitor General : This system of barging into police station for supporting accused has replaced the constitutional rule of law. So let us not deviate. Kindly examine that.


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    • 27 May 2021 2:36 PM IST

      Justice Harish Tandon : I don't think the emotions of common man, dehors the rule of law, would avert the dispensation of justice.


      In a hierarchical system, there are remedies available against a judicial order. 


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    • 27 May 2021 2:35 PM IST

      Justice Harish Tandon : Common man may go by their emotions or sentiments. We have to see rule of law framework. Even if the emotions are high, rule of law does not permit them. 


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    • 27 May 2021 2:34 PM IST

      Justice Soumen Sen : Can a judicial order be set at naught on the basis of a perceived injustice?


      Solicitor General : That is the question. Justice must also be seem to be done.


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    • 27 May 2021 2:34 PM IST

      Justice Mukerji : There are umpteen number of high profile arrests in country, where there is public outcry. Unless you show that the learned judge was influenced by it, this will be counter-productive.

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    • 27 May 2021 2:34 PM IST

      Solicitor General : In this state, such events are happening frequently. Please do not take this as a political statement. Unless checked, this can get replicated in other states. This can be adopted by politicians, particular communities.

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    • 27 May 2021 2:32 PM IST

      Solicitor General : If I wanted to cancel bail, I would have filed application under Section 439(2). There are grounds for that. But here, there are more fundamental questions. It is a question of rule of law. 

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    • 27 May 2021 2:32 PM IST

      Solicitor General : This 5-judge bench has not assemble to decide the question of whether bail has to be granted. We are not on that minimalistic question. I am on a more fundamental, more constitutional, more rule of law argument.

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    • 27 May 2021 2:30 PM IST

      Solicitor General : I ask Your Lordships to please forget the issue of legality of arrest for the time being. The question now is can they seek bail by such conduct.

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    • 27 May 2021 2:29 PM IST

      Solicitor General : The question is not whether the bail granted was right or not. For argument sake, presume arrest is illegal. The question is whether the perceived intimidation could shake the common man's faith in the system.


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