{"id":38413,"date":"2015-07-17T12:17:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T12:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=38413"},"modified":"2015-07-17T12:17:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T12:17:31","slug":"hc-bench-recuses-itself-from-hearing-mitras-bail-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hc-bench-recuses-itself-from-hearing-mitras-bail-prayer","title":{"rendered":"HC bench recuses itself from hearing Mitra&#8217;s bail prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37372\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37372\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/law.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37372\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/government-to-soon-appoint-more-law-officers\/law-7\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/law.png?fit=275%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"275,183\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"law\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;law&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/law.png?fit=275%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/law.png?fit=275%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-37372 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/law.png?resize=275%2C183&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"HC bench recuses itself from hearing Mitra's bail prayer\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HC bench recuses itself from hearing Mitra&#8217;s bail prayer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A division bench of the Calcutta High Court today recused itself from hearing a bail prayer of West Bengal Transport minister Madan Mitra, who was arrested by CBI for alleged complicity in the Saradha scam.<\/p>\n<p>The bench comprising justices Girish Gupta and S S Sadhu recused itself from hearing the matter on personal grounds and said that it would not hear any matter pertaining to the multi-crore Saradha scam.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third time that Mitra&#8217;s bail prayer has not been heard by the high court wherein the judges recused themselves from hearing the matter on personal grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The matter would now be referred back to Chief Justice Manjula Chellur for reassignment to another bench.<\/p>\n<p>Bail prayers of Mitra, who has been in custody for more than 215 days, had been rejected by district courts a number of times earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The minister is at present in judicial remand, but is lodged in the state-run SSKM Hospital on health grounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A division bench of the Calcutta High Court today recused itself from hearing a bail prayer of West Bengal Transport minister Madan Mitra, who was arrested by CBI for alleged complicity in the Saradha scam. 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