Mr Bhadra was virtually produced before the court today from a premier private hospital along E M Bypass, where he is undergoing treatment and the judge informed him about the sections under which the charges were framed against him.
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.
Following Independence, West Bengal was one of the more developed states in India, contributing over 30 percent to the national GDP.
Tapas Roy claimed on Monday that Partha Chatterjee might have past records of being involved in conspiracies against others.
The party believes that Partha Chatterjee has nothing that can link the cash, gold, or property deeds seized from his or Arpita Mukherjee's properties to the Trinamool Congress.
Mr Yechury has further attacked the BJP-led-Central government for delaying progress in the probe of the Sarada chit fund and Narada bribery cases where TMC senior leaders are allegedly involved.
The source said that the agency is now trying to identify the locations where these flats have come up.
