Yesterday, Calcutta High Court refused to grant Trinamul Congress national general-secretary Abhishek Banerjee interim relief from coercive action by the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate in cases related to alleged irregularities in recruitment at primary schools.

The bench of Justice Amrita Sinha, who replaced Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of the high court in the cases related to Abhishek following a Supreme denied interim relief till May 15

Abhishek Banerjee and his party colleague Kuntal Ghosh moved to Calcutta High Court and filed two applications, 

In their first applications, both Abhishek and Ghosh prayed for being added as parties.

In their second pleas, the two sought a stay on the order passed by Justice Gangopadhyay on April 13, directing the CBI and the ED to interrogate them in connection with the “scam”.

The counsel appearing for Abhishek asked the judge for a verbal order instructing both the central probe agencies against taking any coercive measure against his client, at least till May 15.

Since there was a delay in serving the copies of applications, the pleas could not be taken up for hearing on Friday. Justice Sinha fixed them for the hearing on May 15 and kept it at the “top of the list”.