KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court on Monday granted bail to the senior general manager of a reputable shoe manufacturing company of Kolkata, in a case involving violation of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972. Justice Partha Sakha Datta granted Hirak Subhra Chatterjee's bail plea after his lawyer Jaymalya Bagchi submitted that investigation was in progress and his client's detention was not required any longer.
Cartier FakeAccording to the prosecution, an inspector of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau's eastern regional office raided the Lindsay Street showroom of the company and seized a skin, suspecting it to be of a wild animal protected under the central Act. Fearing arrest, Chatterjee moved an anticipatory bail plea before a city sessions court. However, his plea was rejected and he surrendered before the chief metropolitan magistrate on October 30.
Loewe Fake HandbagsChatterjee, a cardiac patient, was taken into custody and admitted to a jail hospital on November 11 after his subsequent bail plea was turned down by the CMM. He then moved high court. Bagchi submitted that Pravat Kumar Sahoo, a leather technologist, had in December 2008 gifted the company the cow
embroidered patches (calf) skin with hair. It was personally processed and tanned by him. The skin was gifted as a "free sample for display as an ornamental decorative piece", he said. For Reprint Rights: timescontent.com
