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 2:17 PM IST

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


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    • 27 May 2021 2:15 PM IST

      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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    • 27 May 2021 2:12 PM IST

      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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    • 27 May 2021 2:08 PM IST


      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.


    • 27 May 2021 2:08 PM IST


      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.


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