West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday moved the Supreme Court against the Calcutta High Court’s refusal to take on record a...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday moved the Supreme Court against the Calcutta High Court’s refusal to take on record an affidavit she filed in connection with the Narada bribery case, Bar and Bench reported.
The matter is likely to be heard on Tuesday.
The affidavits were filed by Banerjee and West Bengal Law Minister Moloy Ghatak in connection with the Central Bureau of Investigation’s petition to transfer the Narada case from the Special CBI Court to the High Court.
The CBI had arrested West Bengal ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra and former party leader Sovan Chatterjee in connection with the case on May 17.
The CBI told the High Court on May 19 that Banerjee and Ghatak led mass protests against the arrest of the four leaders, adding that there was a “mobocracy” in West Bengal, according to Live Law. Banerjee and Ghatak responded to the accusations. But on June 9, the Calcutta High Court noted that their affidavits were not filed at the right time.
The court said that Banerjee and Ghatak “waited for the arguments in the case to be substantially completed before seeking to place on record their pleadings in response”, according to Live Law.
The Calcutta High Court added:
“The Respondents have taken a calculated risk in not filing...
