By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: The Best Courtroom on Wednesday granted anticipatory bail to Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief S Okay Supiyan, who used to be the election agent of Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram all through closing 12 months’s meeting elections, in a homicide case.
A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and Abhay S Oka, then again, imposed a number of stipulations whilst granting the relaxation to Supiyan.
The apex court docket famous that the incident is of Might 3, 2021 and even though two fee sheets had been filed on fifth October 2021 and ninth January 2022, Supiyan has now not been named as an accused therein.
It additionally took observe of the truth that the appellant used to be now not named in each the fee sheets filed thereafter.
“Taking into account the bizarre details of the case, we’re of the view that the appellant merits to be granted pre-arrest bail. Then again, the appellant should absolutely cooperate with the respondent-CBI for investigation and should stay provide for investigation as and when referred to as upon by way of the investigating officer,” the bench mentioned.
It added: “We make it transparent that the pre-arrest bail granted to the appellant is susceptible to be cancelled whether it is discovered that the appellant isn’t cooperating for the investigation. We additional make it transparent that we’ve got now not made any adjudication at the deserves of the debate.”
The highest court docket on February 4 had reserved its order when the CBI had mentioned that Supiyan has been operating clear of the investigation within the homicide case of a BJP employee being probed by way of it.
The CBI took over the investigation of the case on August 30, 2021.
The CBI is probing the demise of BJP employee Debabrata Maity, who used to be allegedly attacked in Nandigram.
The top court docket had directed the probe company to research post-poll violence circumstances within the state.