New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry (MHA) has sought “immediately” a report from the West Bengal authorities on allegations that “false and fabricated” circumstances had been being registered in opposition to opposition leaders and employees within the state. The transfer got here after the Prime Minister’s Office wrote a letter to the Home Ministry and forwarded a letter written by the Leader of the Opposition within the West Bengal Assembly and BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari by which he had alleged registration of “false and fabricated” circumstances in opposition to opposition leaders and social gathering employees allegedly by the West Bengal authorities.
The letter was despatched by Mrutyunjay Tripathy, Union Home Under-Secretary to HK Dwivedi, Chief Secretary of West Bengal on March 10. “I am directed to forward herewith a copy of the letter received from the Prime Minister’s Office along with a copy of a letter of Suvendu Adhikari, alleging registration of false and fabricated cases against opposition leaders and party workers by the West Bengal government,” said the letter despatched to the West Bengal authorities.
“As the issue raised in the petition is concerned with the government of West Bengal, it is requested that the matter may please be looked into appropriately and the report in the matter may please be furnished to this ministry immediately,” the Home Ministry letter stated.
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MHA writes to West Bengal Chief Secretary, requesting them to appropriately look into the matter raised by WB LoP Suvendu Adhikari, “alleging registration of false & fabricated cases against opposition leaders & party workers by the West Bengal Government.” pic.twitter.com/HTJOYpNoJC
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In July 2021, Adhikari had alleged that he was being subjected to “political vendetta” since he was an opposition social gathering chief and the circumstances had been registered in opposition to him with “false claims”. He had then approached the Calcutta High Court in search of an order directing the quashing of the FIRs in opposition to him.
Adhikari had additionally pleaded within the writ petition switch of the felony circumstances in opposition to him to the CBI for an “impartial investigation”.
