New Delhi: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday referred to as for better Centre-state cooperation in West Bengal to forestall occasions of post-poll violence this time.
A trip division bench of Justices Kausik Chanda and Apurba Sinha Ray made the commentary whereas listening to a public curiosity litigation (PIL) on the difficulty.
The PIL, filed by an organisation named ‘Rashtravadi Ainjivi’, alleged incidents of post-poll violence have began surfacing because the night of June 4 after the pattern of Lok Sabha elections within the state turned clear. The petitioner additionally alleged that normally, the state police had been refusing to simply accept complaints from the victims of post-poll violence.
After an in depth listening to within the matter, the holiday bench noticed that the Union and state governments have equal duty in stopping such occasions of post-poll violence and each ought to work in shut coordination to forestall such occasions.
It additionally noticed that the central armed police forces (CAPF) would have the authority to behave if the state police had been unable to carry the state of affairs below management in such circumstances of post-poll violence.
The trip bench additionally directed the state Director General of Police (DGP) to make preparations in order that the victims may register their complaints by means of e-mail at his workplace. As per the courtroom directive, the DGP’s workplace ought to ahead these complaints to the police station involved and in addition be certain that they act on them.
The workplace of the DGP was additionally directed to submit an affidavit on the variety of FIRs registered on the premise of the complaints on post-poll violence and in addition publish these figures on the web site of the state police.
