Narada bribery case: Calcutta HC orders home arrest of Bengal ministers, two others

The Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered the home arrest of the 2 Bengal ministers, one MLA and the previous Kolkata Mayor who’ve been held within the Narada bribery case.
The Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and Justice Arjit Banerjee was listening to the case.
This comes a day after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had labelled the arrests as “political vendetta”.
“The matter is sub judice and I do not want to comment. However, I will say whatever happened to them is wrong. It is a clear instance of deliberate political vendetta. Bobby [Firhad Hakim] and his team were fighting Covid from the streets. He even volunteered for a trial of Covishield [vaccine] with risk to his life. Now he and others are kept behind bars day after day. Three to four days have passed. They could not work for days. I hope we will get justice from the court,” the chief minister informed reporters.
The CBI has filed a petition urging the judges to switch the trial from a particular CBI court docket to the High Court, declare the proceedings within the company court docket on May 17 a nullity within the eyes of the legislation, and conduct the proceedings afresh. The 4 leaders, in the meantime, have appealed to the court docket to revoke its keep on the bail that the CBI court docket had granted them.

The CBI court docket had granted bail to the 4 “under the cloud of mobocracy, pressure, threat and violence and is a nullity in the eyes of law”, the company’s counsel argued. The CBI has made Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, state Law Minister Moloy Ghatak and TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee get together to the switch plea.