RG Kar Corruption case: HC gives 1 week time to Ghosh, framing of charges put on hold

On Wednesday, a time aft the azygous justice seat of the High Court rejected Ghosh’s plea, his counsel moved the Division Bench seeking postponement of the framing of the charges and cited that the CBI had precocious handed implicit them documents moving successful “thousands of pages”.

The counsels of Ghosh and different accused Suman Hazra told the Division Bench that the CBI gave them documents, moving into thousands of pages connected February 1, portion the day for framing of charges was fixed earlier the peculiar tribunal connected February 4, giving them “hardly 4 days to spell done the voluminous documents related to the case”.

“Give maine tenable clip to paginate the documents,” elder counsel Sabyasachi Banerjee, who was representing Hazra, told the Bench.

After proceeding him, Justice Bagchi observed: “No eden volition autumn successful a days’ postponement. Every accused has the close to owed process. Also, 1 has to analyse the request of the accused to hole his defence. Twenty-five 1000 papers person to beryllium examined.”

Justice Bagchi, however, besides told the counsel of the accused that helium does not person the privilege of dilating the proceedings earlier the proceedings court.

The Division Bench projected that the accused whitethorn get a week’s clip to spell done the documents for filing a discharge petition, if helium truthful wishes.  “Seven days’ clip to look into the papers, and record your discharge petitions. The discharge petitions are heard wrong 7 days from the day connected which the discharge petitions are given. We would similar each the counsels appearing for the accused to beryllium unneurotic with the lawman solicitor wide to enactment retired a tenable clip frame,” Justice Bagchi said.

Of the 5 accused successful the case, 3 person filed discharge petitions. Ghosh is not 1 of them.

The Division Bench said that it would show the proceedings earlier the peculiar CBI tribunal astatine Alipore, truthful that the discharge petitions are heard wrong 7 days of being taken up by it.

“If determination is immoderate hold successful the proceedings earlier the proceedings court, the lawyers volition beryllium astatine liberty to notation that earlier this Division Bench,” Justice Bagchi added.

“We bash not privation a concern wherever justness hurried is justness buried, but astatine the aforesaid time, we volition support the full proceeding (before the peculiar court) nether our strict supervision,” the Division Bench said, adding it would station the substance for proceeding earlier it 3 weeks truthful that the CBI submits a study connected the progress.

The Bench said that it proposes to commence the proceedings arsenic rapidly arsenic imaginable and aft the charges are framed, the onus volition beryllium connected CBI to springiness a proceedings docket truthful that prosecution grounds is concluded wrong a tenable time.

The substance volition beryllium heard by the High Court again connected Friday.

Ghosh was the main of the aesculapian assemblage and infirmary erstwhile a inferior doc was raped and murdered wrong its seminar country connected August 9 past year, triggering outrage crossed the country. He was arrested by CBI successful transportation with the alleged fiscal irregularities and is astatine contiguous successful judicial remand. Ghosh was besides arrested and booked for alleged conspiracy successful the rape and execution case, but helium was granted bail aft CBI failed to taxable a chargesheet against him successful the lawsuit wrong the stipulated 90 days’ time.

Previously successful the corruption case, the peculiar CBI tribunal had pulled up CBI for not informing the proceedings tribunal astir the Bengal government’s giving authorisation to prosecute Dr Ghosh. The tribunal had directed the probe bureau to bring each evidence, including physics evidence, to the tribunal and manus implicit copies of the documents to each the accused truthful that the charges could beryllium framed and the proceedings could statesman soon.     In January the  HC had rejected a plea by Ghosh for much clip earlier charges are framed against him successful the case.  Turning down his plea, Justice Tirthankar Ghosh had observed that determination had been a “systematic delay” successful proceeding the lawsuit connected alleged fiscal irregularities.