The Calcutta High Court on Sunday asked the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to take the arrested West Bengal Industries and Commerce Minister, Partha Chatterjee, by air ambulance to the AIIMS Bhubaneswar early on Monday. Justice Bibek Chaudhuri said the Minister, arrested by the ED in the West Bengal School Service Commission recruitment scam, would be accompanied by a doctor of the SSKM Superspecialty Hospital and an advocate to the AIIMS Bhubaneswar.
The ED on Sunday approached the High Court challenging a city court order allowing Mr. Chatterjee to stay at the State-run SSKM Hospital. The court order said, “The investigating agency is directed to take the accused by air ambulance to the AIIMS Bhubaneswar in the early morning on July 25. The accused shall be taken to the NSC Bose Airport, Calcutta by an ambulance of the SSKM Superspecialty Hospital. He will be accompanied by a doctor of the SSKM Superspecialty Hospital and an advocate for the accused.”
The 11-page order directed the AIIMS Bhubaneswar authority to have the accused examined by a team of doctors of cardiology, nephrology, respiratory medicines and endocrinology and prepare a report and hand over “copies of the same to the investigating officer, the Medical Officer of the SSKM Superspeciality Hospital, and the advocate for the accused by 3 p.m. on Monday.”
