The Calcutta High Court has granted interim bail for three weeks, till October 21, to Congress’s Nandigram bypoll candidate Milan Pradhan in cases arising from the 2007 Nandigram agitation, observing that he was taken into custody only after filing his nomination papers.
The Calcutta High Court has pulled up the West Bengal government after Congress candidate Milan Pradhan, contesting the Nandigram by-poll, was arrested and remanded in a sixth criminal case from the 2007 Nandigram land-acquisition protests, despite the State’s assurance to the Court that he would not be arrested in any further 2007 case. Finding no production warrant had been served, the Court directed the police to take no coercive steps and that he not be treated as arrested in that case until October 12.
The Calcutta High Court, hearing a plea by Nandigram bypoll candidate Milan Pradhan challenging his September 18 arrest in cases dating to the 2007 anti-land-acquisition protests, told the State to take no steps against him till October 9, after the polling date. The State submitted that of the six cases referred to, five are no longer alive and Pradhan is not an accused in the sixth, so no order was required. The matter was listed for October 12.
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The Calcutta High Court declined an urgent hearing on the Trinamool Congress’s plea challenging the freezing of its bank accounts after authorities imposed a debit freeze on three accounts. The action followed complaints by rebel MLAs seeking an investigation into the source of funds deposited in the party’s accounts.