Bengal school recruitment scam: Sujay Bhadra applies for bail on medical grounds
Kolkata (IANS). Sujay Krishna Bhadra, the main accused in the multi-crore school recruitment scam in West Bengal, moved a bail application in the Calcutta High Court on Friday to undergo bypass surgery in any private hospital in Kolkata.
Bhadra is currently undergoing treatment at the Government SSKM Medical College and Hospital in South Kolkata after the stent was implanted.
He had earlier applied for the same permission in the lower court, which was rejected. The lower court had ordered that Bhadra’s treatment would continue at SSKM.
Bhadra’s counsel on Friday filed a petition in the Calcutta High Court challenging the trial court’s order.
Incidentally, Bhadra’s application to the Calcutta High Court comes on the same day that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed a charge sheet against him in the case in a special court under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Justice Tirthankar Ghose of the Calcutta High Court has accepted the plea of Bhadra’s lawyer. The process of getting Bhadra’s voice sample tested by the central agency has already been delayed after he was admitted to the hospital.
He was recently released on parole to perform the last rites of his wife, who passed away recently. On completion of his parole period, he had come to the Presidency Central Correctional Home and had to be admitted to the hospital the same day.
ED officials have claimed that Bhadra acted as the main link between former state education minister and Trinamool Congress general secretary Partha Chatterjee and expelled Youth Trinamool Congress leader Kuntal Ghosh. Both are currently in judicial custody for their alleged involvement in the school job case.
