Kolkata: Mukul Rai, once considered to be the most special of CM Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal and now BJP leader, has got a big relief from the Calcutta High Court. Giving him interim relief, the High Court has stayed the arrest till November 8. Mukul Rai has been accused of money laundering in exchange for making him a member of a committee of Railways. It is known that Rai became the railway minister from TMC quota during the UPA government. A division bench of Justices S Munshi and S Dasgupta has adjourned the hearing on the plea of Mukul Rai on the appeal of the state government till November 5.
Government lawyer Shashwat Mukherjee told the court that the police had collected papers and evidence related to the case and he needed some time to confirm them. To this, the bench said that it will hear the matter on November 5 after the leave of Durgapuja. On August 29, the High Court granted Rai a week's relief from his first arrest. Later it was extended from time to time.
Santu Ganguly, a local businessman, had filed a case of forgery against Baban Ghosh, the alleged leader of BJP's trade union. Mukul Rai has filed a petition in the North Court for anticipatory bail in the same case. Ganguly has said in his complaint that Ghosh had given Rai's name and assured him to be a member of the Zonal Railway Users Consultative Committee and took millions of rupees from him. Please tell that Rai is still busy in BJP's time in Bengal. He has brought many TMC leaders to the BJP.
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