The Calcutta High Court ruled on Thursday that the West Bengal government should permit Congress candidate Milan Pradhan to participate in the Nandigram by-election set for October 6. This decision comes despite Pradhan being in judicial custody related to multiple cases from 2007.
The bail plea in the fifth case will be filed on Friday. The petitions are likely to be heard on Friday,” said Pandey. “The bench observed that Pradhan be allowed to campaign and contest the by-poll. “We have filed bail petitions in four cases.
The court also said that he should be not treated as arrested in one case (registered in Khejuri police station in 2007), as it was not flagged during the last hearing on September 22,” said Ajitesh Pandey, advocate representing Pradhan. Mazumder informed the court that even though the cases were registered against Pradhan in 2007, the previous Trinamool Congress (TMC) government withdrew all the cases in 2020. The cases were reinstated in 2021 after a PIL was filed in the Calcutta high court flagging that those were murder cases.
“Allow him to contest,” the bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya said while addressing Rajdeep Majumder, additional advocate general representing the state government.
