Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court is likely to hear a case against Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The West Bengal Chief Minister allegedly made adverse remarks about the Judiciary.
The court had earlier ordered three TV channels to hand over video clippings that showed Mamata claiming that the judgments of the judiciary can be bought.
Mamata had made the comments in the state Assembly and said that she was ready to go to jail for the same.
"At times favourable verdicts are given in return for money. These days, judgements are purchased. There is corruption among a section of the judiciary. I know there can be a defamation suit against me for saying this. But this must be said and I am ready to go to jail for saying so," she had said.
She had made the remarks after the state's human rights commission, which is headed by a former Supreme Court judge, ordered her to pay Rs 50,000 each to a professor of the Jadavpur University and his friend after they were arrested in April this year over some cartoons of the chief minister they reportedly circulated through their official email.
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