Calcutta High Court Accepts The Affidavits Of Mamta Banerjee

Calcutta High Court accepts the affidavits of Mamta Banerjee and Malay Ghatak in the Narada sting case: Narada Sting Operation Case.

The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday accepted a fresh application made by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Law Minister Malay Ghatak, and the state government to give affidavits in the Narada sting operation case.

Each will have to pay a fine of Rs 5000 each to the court in respect of the affidavit.

Let us inform that on this matter, the Supreme Court had directed the petitioners to file an affidavit again in the Calcutta High Court.

On the directions of the Supreme Court, a new application was filed on Monday to give the affidavits of Mamta Banerjee, Law Minister Malay Ghatak, and the state government.

The matter was heard yesterday, but the five-member bench had reserved its verdict.

Today the bench allowed the application for filing the affidavit. Directed the State Legal Authority to deposit Rs 5000 each within seven days.

The next hearing will be on July 15.

The court’s direction said that the CBI will reply on the entire matter within 10 days, while the next hearing of this case will be on July 15.

In fact, in its order of June 9, the High Court had refused to take the affidavit of the state government. Mamta Banerjee and Malay had moved the Supreme Court on this.

On this, the Supreme Court had asked the High Court on June 25 to reconsider their applications before taking a decision on the CBI’s petition.

Mamta Banerjee had filed a petition in the Supreme Court.

Let us tell you that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had approached the Supreme Court after getting setback by the Calcutta High Court in the Narada sting tape case.

He had moved the Supreme Court against the Calcutta High Court’s refusal to file affidavits on his role and that of state Law Minister Malay Ghatak on the day of the arrest of four Trinamool Congress leaders by the CBI on May 17.

However, Justice Aniruddha Bose recused himself from the matter.

A five-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court had on June 9, while hearing the central probe agency’s plea to transfer the trial of Narada sting tape case from a special CBI court to the High Court, had said that it is looking forward to the arrest of four leaders in the case.

Calcutta High Court will make a decision later on considering the affidavits filed by Banerjee and Ghatak regarding the role of Ghatak.