Kolkata, August 26: A new bench of the Kolkata High Court will hear the bail application of former Trinamool Congress MLA and West Bengal Fire Services Minister Sujit Bose. This case was filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against him.
Last week, Justice Suvra Ghosh recused herself from the case after completing the hearing. On August 19, she announced her decision to withdraw due to serious reasons. She mentioned that one of Bose’s lawyers came to her chamber in her absence and handed over a file related to the case to her personal secretary.
Describing the incident as highly unfortunate, Justice Ghosh informed Acting Chief Justice Tapobrata Chakraborty, who was responsible for forming the new bench.
On Tuesday, the Acting Chief Justice’s office assigned the case to Justice Tirthankar Ghosh’s single-judge bench. The first hearing is scheduled for September 3.
ED officials arrested Bose on May 11 this year. He is accused of illegally recommending names of job seekers in the South Dum Dum Municipality. The ED claimed in the trial court that the list included nearly 150 names recommended by the former minister.
The agency also alleged that money earned through corruption was deposited into bank accounts belonging to Bose and his family members. Before his arrest, police had interrogated him multiple times.
Bose, who served as a three-time Trinamool MLA from Bidhannagar in North 24 Parganas, was recently defeated in the West Bengal Assembly elections by Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Sharadwat Mukherjee, who is now the Health Minister of West Bengal.
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