Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee has approached the Supreme Court docket difficult the Calcutta High Court’s August 5 decision to reject his plea looking for permission to journey overseas for eye remedy.
The Excessive Court docket’s restriction on international journey was imposed as a situation for a keep on his arrest within the prison case regarding an alleged provocative speech made in reference to the not too long ago concluded West Bengal Meeting elections.
He had earlier approached the Court docket difficult the July 20 order of the High Court, which refused him journey permission, and as an alternative requested him to endure remedy on the state-run SSKM Hospital and the Institute of Submit Graduate Medical Schooling & Analysis (IPGME&R).
On August 3, the Supreme Court docket disposed of his plea with a request to the Excessive Court docket to determine the matter expeditiously. On August 5, the Calcutta Excessive Court docket dismissed his software, saying that he declined to seem earlier than a medical board constituted to evaluate whether or not he required remedy abroad.
The Excessive Court docket famous that had Banerjee appeared earlier than the board, its medical opinion might have enabled the court docket to find out whether or not he required remedy overseas.
The Excessive Court docket noticed that it was not a medical professional and that, at this stage, the essential query was whether or not Banerjee required remedy, reasonably than the place such remedy was to be administered.
The Excessive Court docket additionally rejected the argument that Banerjee had an absolute proper to decide on the physician or medical institution the place he ought to obtain remedy, noting the pendency of a number of prison prosecutions and ongoing investigations in opposition to him.
Senior Advocate Rebecca John, showing for Banerjee, had submitted that he needed to proceed remedy with the specialist in america who had beforehand operated on him. She additionally submitted that Banerjee was unwilling to endure remedy at SSKM Hospital.
The West Bengal authorities had opposed the plea, contending that there was no medical emergency warranting remedy overseas and that allowing Banerjee to journey abroad might have an effect on ongoing investigations in instances in opposition to him.
Case : Abhishek Banerjee v. State of West Bengal | SLP (Crl) 14489/2026
