Greeva Garg –
On refusal of affidavits by the Calcutta High Court filed in Narada case, the Supreme Court of India directed the State Government of West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and State Law Minister Moloy Ghatak to file an application before the Calcutta High Court with the statement of appropriate reasons for not filing affidavits earlier.
After submitting advance copies of the application to CBI on June 27, they are asked to file the application in the Calcutta High Court on June 28.
On the next hearing of the Narada Scam matter, to be held on June 29, the Supreme Court solicited the High Court to decision upon the applications filed for acceptance of affidavits.
The Order by the High Court where it refused to take on record the affidavits filed in the Narada Scam Case, passed on June 9, has been put away by the Supreme Court.
The Bench comprising of Justice Vineet Saran and Justice Dinesh Maheshwari observed in the order that, “We are of the opinion that the petitioners ought to have given an application to take the respective counter-affidavits on record, especially when the submissions of the parties were going and had progressed substantially. At this stage, a suggestion was made by this Court that the matter could be remanded to the High Court to decide afresh on the basis of the reasons given in the applications files by the petitioners within the specified time. The counsel for the parties has graciously agreed to the suggestion of this Court.”