Kolkata: His anticipatory bail plea was rejected by the Calcutta High Court on Monday. Trinamool Congress Leader SK Supiyan, who was the election agent of the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee CBI is investigating in a case of murder in Nandigram.
CBI is probing the death of BJP worker Devvrat Maiti, who was allegedly attacked in Nandigram a day after the declaration of assembly election results on May 2 and later succumbed to his injuries at the SSKM Hospital here on an order of the High Court, which directed the agency to cases of post-poll violence. ordered to investigate. State.
A division bench of Justices Debangsu Basak and BR Dey rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Supian, who has already been questioned twice by the CBI in the case.
Claiming that political vendetta has led to Supian’s inclusion in the criminal complaint, his counsel Kishore Dutta submitted that the Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari The names of ten people to be arrested in this case were taken.
He said that with some of the ten people already taken into custody by the CBI, there is a threat of arrest of the petitioner.
Praying for protection from arrest for his client, Dutta further said that Supiyan was not named in the chargesheet filed by the CBI on October 5.
Additional Solicitor General YJ Dastur, representing the CBI, submitted that after handling the investigation, the central agency filed the charge sheet in as much time as possible within the required statutory period.
He said that the atmosphere had worsened before the CBI took over the investigation and that after the agency took over the investigation, people came forward to name the accused.
Opposing the anticipatory bail application, Dastur cited the gravity of the offense as presumed from the case diary and the alleged involvement of the petitioner.
The Bench said that the CBI filed the chargesheet on October 5 upholding the right to conduct further investigation and file further chargesheet.
“Keeping in view the gravity of the offense and considering the material in the case diary” and the statements of the witnesses implicating the petitioner in the incident and the CBI as per the order passed by the full bench, the investigation is yet to be concluded,” We are unable to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner”, the bench ordered. PTI Amar Som
CBI is probing the death of BJP worker Devvrat Maiti, who was allegedly attacked in Nandigram a day after the declaration of assembly election results on May 2 and later succumbed to his injuries at the SSKM Hospital here on an order of the High Court, which directed the agency to cases of post-poll violence. ordered to investigate. State.
A division bench of Justices Debangsu Basak and BR Dey rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Supian, who has already been questioned twice by the CBI in the case.
Claiming that political vendetta has led to Supian’s inclusion in the criminal complaint, his counsel Kishore Dutta submitted that the Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari The names of ten people to be arrested in this case were taken.
He said that with some of the ten people already taken into custody by the CBI, there is a threat of arrest of the petitioner.
Praying for protection from arrest for his client, Dutta further said that Supiyan was not named in the chargesheet filed by the CBI on October 5.
Additional Solicitor General YJ Dastur, representing the CBI, submitted that after handling the investigation, the central agency filed the charge sheet in as much time as possible within the required statutory period.
He said that the atmosphere had worsened before the CBI took over the investigation and that after the agency took over the investigation, people came forward to name the accused.
Opposing the anticipatory bail application, Dastur cited the gravity of the offense as presumed from the case diary and the alleged involvement of the petitioner.
The Bench said that the CBI filed the chargesheet on October 5 upholding the right to conduct further investigation and file further chargesheet.
“Keeping in view the gravity of the offense and considering the material in the case diary” and the statements of the witnesses implicating the petitioner in the incident and the CBI as per the order passed by the full bench, the investigation is yet to be concluded,” We are unable to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner”, the bench ordered. PTI Amar Som
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