Three-member committee to probe if BJP workers had to flee: Calcutta High Court

The HC order followed a petition by advocate Priyanka Tibrewal, who had lost the Assembly polls as the BJP candidate from Entally

Calcutta High Court.:File photo

Legal Reporter   |   TT  |  Calcutta   |  01.06.21: A division bench of Calcutta High Court headed by Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal on Monday directed the state government to set up a three-member committee to find out if some BJP workers had been forced to leave home in the aftermath of the alleged post-poll clashes in several areas of the state.

The bench focused particularly on Calcutta’s Entally.

The bench directed the inclusion of a representative of the chairman of the National Human Rights Commissio, a representative of the State Human Rights Commission and a member of State Legal Aid Services Authority in the panel.

“If necessary, the committee members will help the persons to return to their respective residences and police will have to provide full assistance to them,” the bench ordered.

The court order followed a petition by advocate Priyanka Tibrewal, who had lost the Assembly polls as the BJP candidate from Entally.

She had claimed that a large number of BJP activists had been beaten up and forced to leave their homes by Trinamul supporters after election results on May 2. In Entally, Swarna Kamal Saha of Trinamul Congress defeated Tibrewal with a margin of over 58,000 votes. Tibrewal in her petition claimed Trinamul workers damaged the properties of BJP supporters and tortured their kin. The case will come up for hearing on June 3.

Narada case

The hearing of a petition moved by the CBI, seeking shifting of the Narada case from a CBI court to Calcutta High Court, resumed before a five-judge bench on Monday. The hearing will continue on Tuesday.