A new Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday heard the bail plea by former education minister and Trinamul Congress secretary general Partha Chatterjee in the multi-crore cash-for-school job case and reserved its judgement.
Pointing to the low conviction rate in the money laundering cases, a bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan noted that the trial is yet to commence and, with 183 witnesses to be examined, will take a long time.
The authorities of Presidency Central Correctional Home in South Kolkata have rejected the plea of former West Bengal Education Minister and Trinamool Congress Secretary General Partha Chatterjee for a full-time assistant in his cell.
The first team started the raid and search operations at the residence of Sukanta Acharya, the executive assistant of the former education minister Partha Chatterjee at New Barrackpore in North 24-Parganas.
On Thursday, Chatterjee's counsel Selim Rahman made a forceful argument in the court while moving the bail plea on behalf of his client. Even drawing the reference of Bollywood blockbuster movie "Jolly LLB", Rahman also claimed that going for a sit-in demonstration will be the only course left for him and his client.
On Thursday, Mr Chatterjee's counsel Selim Rahman made a fiery argument at the court, even going to the extent of questioning the CBI's competence as regards producing concrete evidence in the matter
Partha Chatterjee's counsel questioned the justification describing the investigation being at an early stage, even after his client has served judicial custody for 99 days.
Over the last few days, after the Durga Puja, Mamata Banerjee has been denying that she or the Trinamool Congress had any role in not allowing the Tata Motors small car factory to come up in Singur, Hooghly.
The raid was carried out on Saturday. The city police said that the businessman, Sailesh Pande's two bank deposits of Rs 20 crore have been frozen.
After several controversies over the teachers' recruitment at various levels, the West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE) has decided to make the recruitment process of primary teachers in state-run schools "totally transparent" through video-recording of the selection process.
