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CBI moves SC against TMC leaders' house arrest
May 24, 2021
The CBI moves the Supreme Court against the Calcutta HC order allowing the house arrest of 4 leaders, including 3 from TMC, in the Narada case. The fourth is a former party leader.
The central agency wants today's High Court hearing - a five-member bench is scheduled to hear the politicians' bail plea - to be cancelled.
This puts a question mark over the High Court hearing that has been scheduled for 11 am.Those arrested are ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, MLA Madan Mitra, and Sovan Chatterjee, who quit the Trinamool to join the BJP before leaving that party too in March. Mr Hakim is a key minister in the fight against COVID-19 in Kolkata, was also allowed to work from home.On Friday the High Court denied interim bail for all four.