KOLKATA — The
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), on Tuesday, moved a plea at a special
court in Kolkata requesting the court direction for the formation of a medical
board to evaluate the health conditions of a prime accused in the multi-crore
cash for school-job case in West Bengal Sujay Krishna Bhadra.
CBI plea follows a direction from Calcutta High Court’s
division bench of Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Gaurang Kanth earlier in the day
seeking the medical report of Bhadra for examination.
The medical report of Bhadra, who is currently under
treatment at the jail hospital of Presidency Central Correctional Home in
Kolkata, has become significant since he failed the dates of his physical
appearance at the special court on medical grounds.
His physical presence at the court at the lower court is
also crucial for CBI since Calcutta High Court’s single-judge bench of Justice
Suvra Ghosh, on December 6 granted bail to Bhadra in the cases registered
against him by ED in the school-job case and CBI wants to ensure that their
officials can show Bhadra as arrested only after presenting him at the court.
Even on Tuesday, Bhadra failed to make his presence
virtually at the special court through video-conferencing as the same medical
grounds were cited as the reason for his absence.
Thereafter, the CBI counsel made the appeal to the special
court for the formation of a medical board for examining Bhadra. The CBI
counsel also submitted that either the medical would examine Bhadra at the jail
hospital or the same could be done in any other hospital outside the
correctional home premises.
On December 16, the CBI is also supposed to explain to the
division bench of Calcutta High Court on why the agency needs to take Bhadra
into custody.
