However, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has opposed the bail plea filed on medical grounds. The central probe agency's counsel has sought some time from a single-judge bench of Justice Suvra Ghosh to present his arguments in the case.

Justice Ghosh had approved the plea of ​​the ED lawyer and given him four days time to prepare arguments in his favor. This matter will be heard again on June 25.

Mallick, a diabetic and high blood pressure patient, had been complaining of medical complications in the reform home for quite some time. Days after being sent to judicial custody in the last quarter of 2023, he was sent to the state-run S.S.K.M. Was admitted. Medical College and Hospital in South Kolkata. However, he was later sent back to the Presidency Central Correctional Home in South Kolkata.

He has already been named as the main accused in the ration distribution case in the charge sheet filed by the ED. In the charge sheet, the central agency officials have also detailed how the former minister, with the help of his close associates, used to make ill-gotten gains through various channels.

The charge sheet also details how foreign exchange routes were adopted to transfer funds abroad, mainly to Bangladesh and Dubai.