Narada case: CBI approaches Supreme Court against HC order to place four Trinamool leaders under house arrest
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has approached the Supreme Court against a Calcutta High Court course to place under house arrest four Trinamool Congress leaders accused within the Narada sting tapes case.
On Friday, following a cut up verdict on the bail of Sovan Chatterjee, Subrata Mukherjee, Firhad Hakim and Madan Mitra, a Division Bench of the High Court ordered them to be put under house arrest whereas referring the case to a Bench of 5 judges.
The four have been in custody since May 17.
The company moved the Supreme Court a while earlier than midnight on Sunday.
The judges of the High Court Division Bench — presided by Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal — had differed in its opinion over vacating a keep given by it on the bail granted by a CBI court docket to Ministers Mukherjee and Hakim, TMC MLA Mitra and former Kolkata Mayor Chatterjee.
The Bench, additionally comprising Justice Arijit Banerjee, lastly directed that the leaders, positioned under judicial remand to date, would stay in house confinement for now.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the CBI, had pleaded for a keep on the execution of the order.
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