The Supreme Court on
Monday sought a report within four days from the Registrar General of the
Calcutta High Court whether Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay gave an interview to a
news channel about the pending case related to the sensational school
job-for-bribe case in West Bengal.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandachud and
Justice P S Narasimha took strong note of the purported interview given by
Justice Gangopadhyay to a news channel allegedly about the case, and said A
judge has no business to give an interview about pending cases.
The bench asked the Registrar General of the high
court to file a report after taking instruction of the judge on or before
Thursday and fixed the plea of TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee for hearing a day
after that.
On April 17, the top court had stayed the Calcutta
High Court's April 13 order directing the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate
to interrogate Banerjee and Kuntal Ghosh, an accused in the case, and file a
report based on that.
Prior to this, a single judge bench of the Calcutta
High Court of Justice Gangopadhyay had also directed the West Bengal Police not
to lodge any FIR against CBI and Enforcement Directorate officers probing the
alleged scam.
The high court had taken note of the public speech
of Abhishek Banerjee, nephew of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in which he had
purportedly said that Ghosh, an accused in the case, was being pressured by
central probe agencies to name him in the case.