Overview

• On July 15, Paresh Pal, Swapan Samaddar and Papiya Ghosh petitioned the Calcutta High Court for anticipatory bail after being named in the Central Bureau of Investigation’s latest chargesheet.
• The CBI’s second supplementary chargesheet in late June added 18 names, bringing the total accused to 38 in the 2021 post-poll killing of BJP worker Abhijit Sarkar.
• Justice Jay Sengupta’s bench directed that no coercive action be taken against the three pending their bail hearing scheduled for July 16.
• The agency had summoned the trio to its Kolkata office for interrogation by July 18, prompting them to seek pre-arrest relief.
• The investigation, ordered to the CBI by the Calcutta High Court in August 2021, has expanded through multiple chargesheets amid ongoing political tensions over post-election violence accountability.