By way of PTI
KOLKATA: The Calcutta Top Court docket on Tuesday directed the CBI to not arrest Sumit Roy, secretary to TMC best chief Abhishek Banerjee, right through his look sooner than the company to help the investigation into an alleged coal rip-off in West Bengal.
Roy’s attorneys, difficult the CBI understand that requested him to seem sooner than it right here on Tuesday, claimed that it was once issued with out jurisdiction and that he’s now not named within the FIR referring to the coal rip-off.
They submitted that Roy visited the place of business of the CBI on Tuesday morning and was once asked to go back after lunch.
Showing for the CBI, further solicitor common Y J Dastoor submitted that it has now develop into trendy for someone to way court docket upon receiving a understand to sign up for an investigation.
He additional stated that there’s no query of a writ court docket interfering at this level of the continuing with out the petitioner having availed of treatments to be had to him beneath the Code of Felony Process (CrPC).
Justice R Okay Kapur directed that upon the petitioner resuming his cooperation with the investigating government, he might not be arrested in the case of the awareness issued via the company on January 25.