NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Monday said every person has a fundamental right to travel abroad and a right to choose a hospital for treatment and permitted TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee to go to a foreign country for three weeks for treatment for a ‘blunt trauma to his left cheek below the left eye’.“Every individual has a right to go abroad. Every individual has the right to choose medical assistance,” a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana said.ASG S V Raju, appearing for the Bengal govt, said there were 16 cases pending against Banerjee and apprehended he may not come back. He said govt wanted him to be examined by a medical board. “If it is found that his medical condition warrants travel abroad, we will not object.”
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When Raju requested the court to attach stringent conditions to the permission to travel abroad, citing another PMLA case involving an MP, Banerjee’s counsel Gopal Sankaranarayanan objected and asked, “How can you compare the two? Banerjee is an MP and is national general secretary of a party.”