Bengal BJP employee’s killing: SC provides arrest coverage to Mamata ballot agent, to listen to plea on Jan 31
The Ideal Courtroom Thursday granted meantime coverage from arrest to West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee‘s election agent, Sheikh Sufiyan, who’s being probed via the CBI over the killing of a state BJP employee.
A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and B R Gavai fastened January 31 because the date of listening to for the Particular Go away Petition filed via Sufian in opposition to a Calcutta Top Courtroom order rejecting his anticipatory bail. The bench directed that he now not be arrested until then.
The court docket directed that every one statements recorded below Phase 164 of the CrPC (statements made prior to a Justice of the Peace) within the case will have to be produced prior to it. It mentioned this after Solicitor Common Tushar Mehta submitted that Sufiyan were named within the Phase 164 statements via probably the most witnesses however had controlled to not be arrested until now.
The court docket mentioned no adjournments can be granted on January 31 and that the subject can be heard after all on that day.
Mehta informed the bench, “This is a very severe offence. We can fulfill your Lordships. He’s fairly tough. This may occasionally have its personal repercussions.”
Justice Rao answered: “Please don’t get politics into this.”
The S-G denied this and pointed to Sufiyan’s alleged complicity in probably the most crimes.
Sufiyan, the election agent for Banerjee from Nandigram, is going through the CBI probe in reference to the killing of BJP employee Debabrata Maity.
Maity was once allegedly attacked via TMC employees an afternoon after the ballot effects have been introduced. He succumbed to his accidents at a Kolkata sanatorium on Would possibly 13.
