SC grants bail to former TMC youth leader Kuntal Ghosh in CBI case
Hindustan TimesThe Supreme Court on Friday granted regular bail to former Trinamool Congress youth leader Kuntal Ghosh in a Central Bureau of Investigation case linked to the West Bengal primary school recruitment case. Allowing his petition for bail in the CBI case after the Calcutta high court had on November 20 released him in the Enforcement Directorate case, a bench headed by justice Surya Kant directed him not to leave the state of West Bengal without prior permission of the trial court and restrained him from speaking to media about the case. The bench, also comprising justice Ujjal Bhuyan agreed to grant bail after Ghosh’s lawyer MS Khan informed that the investigation in the case is not complete and in July, the trial court recorded in its order that the CBI is yet to submit the documents relied by it for filing the charge sheet. In the given circumstances, we are of the view that detention of the petition in custody for an indefinite period will not be in conformity with the well-established principles of criminal jurisprudence.” Directing the trial court to impose conditions of bail, the bench asked for the additional conditions after CBI alleged that the allegations were grave, and the petitioner wields considerable influence in the state.