Sandeshkhali Violence: Calcutta HC Questions Police Inaction In opposition to TMC chief Shahjahan Sheikh; BJP Sharpens Assault | 10 Factors

New Delhi: The Calcutta Excessive Court docket on Tuesday expressed its displeasure over the involvement of Shahjahan Sheikh, Pradhan of the Zila Parishad, within the violence and sexual abuse that has erupted within the Sandeshkhali space in West Bengal, in addition to the state police’s incapability to arrest him for greater than 19 days. A division bench of Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharya was listening to a petition by the State, difficult the orders of coordinate benches of the Excessive Court docket, which revoked the imposition of part 144 CrPC orders within the space and allowed LoP Suvendu Adhikari, together with one other opposition MLA to go to the realm and meet the affected folks. 

Right here Are 10 Newest Updates On Sandeshkjali Case:

1. Senior BJP chief and LoP in West Bengal Assempbly Suvendu Adhikari reached Sandesh khali in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district after being granted permission by a division bench of the Calcutta Excessive Court docket to go to the restive space.

2. Calcutta HC whereas listening to the state authorities’s plea mentioned, “He cannot be defying the regulation. If one particular person can maintain your complete inhabitants to ransom, the ruling dispensation shouldn’t assist him.”

3. “He’s only a consultant of the general public. He’s sure to do good to the general public. There may be prima facie materials to point out he has carried out injury to the general public. He’s on the run after committing alleged crimes,” the HC added.

4. The division bench, headed by Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam, didn’t intervene within the single bench’s determination that additionally allowed one other BJP MLA, Shankar Ghosh, to hitch Adhikari in Sandeshkhali.

5. Sandeshkhali, a riverine area close to the Sunderbans, about 100 km from Kolkata, has been the location of protests in opposition to some TMC leaders who’re accused of sexual crimes and land grabbing.

6. The West Bengal authorities challenged the only bench’s order of Justice Kausik Chanda, who had placed on maintain the ban on gatherings of greater than 5 folks in Sandeshkhali underneath Part 144 of CrPC.

7. The division bench, which included Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya, instructed the BJP chief to guarantee that solely safety personnel, who have been assigned to them, accompanied them and never any occasion supporters or members.

8. The division bench additionally ordered the Basirhat police chief and the West Bengal authorities to comply with the only bench’s orders. On Monday, Justice Chanda had requested the state to offer sufficient safety forces to stop any mishap throughout Adhikari’s go to to Sandeshkhali village in Sandeshkhali block II in North 24 Parganas district.

9. After arriving at Sandeshkhali, CPI(M) chief Brinda Karat on Tuesday questioned the authorities’ silence on alleged abuse of girls at TMC workplace in Sandeshkhali, saying, “Why was peace not disturbed when girls have been repeatedly summoned to the TMC workplace and abused?”

10. “We got here right here to satisfy the ladies as a result of they’d invited us. They alleged that they have been referred to as to the TMC workplace and TMC goons molested them sexually. The Kolkata Excessive Court docket lifted Part 144 yesterday. Once we reached right here, the police mentioned that the peace could be disrupted, Why was peace not disturbed when girls have been repeatedly summoned to the TMC workplace and abused?” she mentioned.



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