The Supreme Court on Friday quashed the June 9 order of the Calcutta High Court refusing to take the reply-affidavits of West Bengal, its Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and state Law Minister Moloy Ghatak on the CBI’s switch petition within the Narada rip-off case. .
A trip bench of Justices Vineet Saran and Dinesh Maheshwari took recent determination on the petitions of Banerjee, Ghatak and the state authorities earlier than deciding on the CBI’s plea for switch from a five-judge High Court bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal. urged to do The rip-off case went to the High Court itself.
The high court docket was listening to three appeals, together with these of the state authorities, difficult the excessive court docket’s refusal to file affidavits by Banerjee and Ghatak of their function within the Narada rip-off case, the day the CBI arrested 4 Trinamool Congress leaders on May 17. It is alleged that the leaders of the ruling social gathering within the state performed a key function in stopping the CBI from performing its authorized obligation after the arrest of 4 leaders within the case.
The CBI, which is probing the Narada sting tape case on a 2017 order of the High Court, arrested ministers Subrata Mukherjee and Firhad Hakim, Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra and former Kolkata Mayor Sovan Chatterjee.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
