The CBI Special Court on Tuesday approved the jailed ex-education minister Partha Chatterjee to get admitted to a private hospital if he wants but he would have to pay the treatment costs from his own pocket.
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 Court directed that the minister be produced before a special ED court in Kolkata through virtual mode at 4 pm on Monday.
Mukherjee, who is currently in the ED custody will be presented at a special court of Public Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court on Monday.
The party leaders made it clear that if he is found guilty of involvement in the scam, Trinamool will not hesitate to take disciplinary action against him.
After the arrest Chatterjee was taken to a Union government-owned ESI Hospital at Joka in the southern outskirts of Kolkata for a routine medical check- up.
The Trinamool Congress leadership, till the report was filed, were totally tight- lipped about the arrest of Chatterjee.
