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Calcutta: On Friday, the Supreme Court issued a notification to the West Bengal government and ordered that no coercive action be taken against the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in connection with the cases brought against them in the state.
The high court barred the West Bengal Police from taking any enforcement action against BJP National Vice President Mukul Roy, MPs Kailash Vijayvargiya, Arjun Singh and two other BJP leaders until the next hearing date in January 2021.
A bench of three judges, led by Judge Sanjay Kishan Kaul, heard pleas from West Bengal BJP leaders alleging “false FIRs” against them by the state police. The petitioners have alleged that the state government was imposing criminal cases to dissuade them from political activities.
The Supreme Court also requested a response from the government led by Mamata Banerjee on four separate allegations presented by the BJP leaders.
The bank published the batch of requests for an additional hearing in the second week of January.
In addition to Roy, Vijayvargiya and Singh, two other BJP leaders, Sourav Singh and Pawan Kumar Singh, have moved to the high court to obtain protection in cases brought against them in the state.
In granting protection to these five leaders, the court ordered the Home Office to present in a sealed cover a report on the alleged fight between TMC workers and the security personnel of West Bengal BJP leader Kabir Shankar Bose, who filed a separate statement in superior court.
Relieve 3 IPS officers immediately: MHA to West Bengal government
Yesterday, the Union Ministry of the Interior sent a new letter to the government of West Bengal for the immediate relief of three IPS officers, who were involved in the security of the head of the BJP, JP Nadda, in a central delegation indicating that they were have assigned new assignments.
The three IPS agents, Rajeev Mishra (1996 group), Praveen Tripathi (2004 group) and Bolanath Pandey (2011 group), were instructed to report on the central delegation hours after the West Bengal government refused to send your chief secretary and chief of police to Delhi. to discuss the situation of law and order in the state.
In a new order, the ministry cited the rules of the Indian Police Services (IPS) and asked the state government to relieve the three officers: Pandey (SP, Diamond Harbor), Tripathi (DIG, Presidency Range) and Mishra (ADG, South Bengal). .
All three were responsible for JP Nadda’s safety during his December 9-10 visit to the politically volatile state when his convoy was attacked in Diamond Harbor.
