Supreme Court was hearing appeals challenging the high court's denial for filing of affidavits by Banerjee & Ghatak in their role on the day the CBI arrested four TMC leaders.
The bench said that the issue would now placed before CJI Ramana who may take the decision and the pleas may be listed for hearing during the day itself.
Firhad Hakim, arrested by CBI in connection with the Narada bribery scandal, is first Muslim mayor of Kolkata post-Independence, and first Muslim chair of Tarakeswar Temple board.
CBI had challenged 2 Calcutta High Court orders in Supreme Court, one of which directed that the 4 TMC leaders accused in the Narada scam case be kept under house arrest.
The division bench judges disagreed over vacating a stay given by them on bail granted by a special CBI court to Subrata Mukherjee, Firhad Hakim, Madan Mitra and Sovan Chatterjee.
A division bench is hearing a CBI application to transfer the jailed TMC leaders' bail applications from the Special CBI Court to the High Court citing unprecedented mob pressures.
The high court Monday night stayed the lower court's decision to grant bail to the four leaders, arrested and charge-sheeted by the CBI in the Narada sting case.
The division bench said it deemed it appropriate to stay the special court's order and direct that the accused person shall be treated to be in judicial custody till further orders.
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