{"id":6187,"date":"2019-08-30T06:23:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T06:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/?p=6187"},"modified":"2019-08-30T06:23:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T06:23:33","slug":"calcutta-high-court-grants-protection-from-arrest-to-mukul-roy-till-september-5-in-cheating-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/calcutta-high-court-grants-protection-from-arrest-to-mukul-roy-till-september-5-in-cheating-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Calcutta High Court grants protection from arrest to Mukul Roy till September 5 in cheating case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: newindianexpress.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday granted protection from arrest till September 5 to senior BJP leader Mukul Roy in connection with a case of alleged payout for a railway panel membership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roy moved the high court seeking anticipatory bail in the case of cheating filed by one Santu Ganguly against Baban Ghosh, who claims to be a local BJP labour wing leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ganguly alleged in the FIR that Ghosh had taken Roy&#8217;s name while assuring him membership of a railway panel and accepted a bribe of over Rs 70 lakh from him, the senior BJP leader&#8217;s lawyer Bikash Bhattacharya said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following Ghosh&#8217;s arrest in the case by the Kolkata Police last week, Roy moved the high court seeking anticipatory bail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A division bench comprising justices S Munshi and S Dasgupta on Thursday adjourned hearing in the matter on a plea by advocate General Kishore Dutta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dutta, appearing for the state, sought time to go through a supplementary affidavit filed by Roy&#8217;s lawyers on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The division bench said the matter would be heard on September 2 and directed the state government that Roy not be arrested till September 5.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/calcutta-high-court-grants-protection-from-arrest-to-mukul-roy-till-september-5-in-cheating-case\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"5\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: newindianexpress.com KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday granted protection from arrest till September 5 to senior BJP leader Mukul Roy in connection with a case of alleged payout for a railway panel membership. Roy moved the high court seeking anticipatory bail in the case of cheating filed by one Santu Ganguly against Baban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2962],"tags":[1008,94,4818,4731,4817],"class_list":["post-6187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calcutta-high-court","tag-arrest","tag-calcutta-high-court","tag-cheating-case","tag-mukul-roy","tag-september"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6189,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187\/revisions\/6189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}