Orissa HC rejects pre-arrest bail plea of scribe Suman Chattopadhyay

By Express News Service

CUTTACK:  The Orissa High Court on Tuesday dismissed the pre-arrest bail plea of senior Bengali journalist Suman Chattopadhyay. Earlier, the courtroom had refused to grant the bail to the 63-year-old on June 17, 2021. 

Chattopadhyay has been searching for anticipatory bail after the CBI summoned him to seem in Bhubaneswar for interrogation in connection together with his alleged hyperlinks to the Sarada chit fund rip-off. He had moved the Supreme Court towards the excessive courtroom order. But the apex courtroom had turned down his plea whereas giving him liberty to maneuver the HC once more. 

However, the only choose bench of Justice S Pujahari whereas dismissing his plea on Tuesday stated, “The CBI has already emphasised for custodial interrogation of the petitioner and being attentive to the identical, this courtroom on earlier event had rejected his prayer for pre-arrest bail.

For the aforesaid causes and there being no change in circumstance, this courtroom isn’t inclined to launch the petitioner on pre-arrest bail, however the freedom granted to him to re-agitate the matter by the apex courtroom.” 

CUTTACK:  The Orissa High Court on Tuesday dismissed the pre-arrest bail plea of senior Bengali journalist Suman Chattopadhyay. Earlier, the courtroom had refused to grant the bail to the 63-year-old on June 17, 2021. 

Chattopadhyay has been searching for anticipatory bail after the CBI summoned him to seem in Bhubaneswar for interrogation in connection together with his alleged hyperlinks to the Sarada chit fund rip-off. He had moved the Supreme Court towards the excessive courtroom order. But the apex courtroom had turned down his plea whereas giving him liberty to maneuver the HC once more. 

However, the only choose bench of Justice S Pujahari whereas dismissing his plea on Tuesday stated, “The CBI has already emphasised for custodial interrogation of the petitioner and being attentive to the identical, this courtroom on earlier event had rejected his prayer for pre-arrest bail.

For the aforesaid causes and there being no change in circumstance, this courtroom isn’t inclined to launch the petitioner on pre-arrest bail, however the freedom granted to him to re-agitate the matter by the apex courtroom.”