The Mamata Banerjee’s West Bengal government has moved Supreme Court against the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe in Sandeshkhali violence. The Calcutta High Court final week ordered a CBI investigation into allegations of crimes against girls and land-grabbing in Sandeshkhali, which had witnessed protests over the problems.
The court docket directed the CBI to research the allegations and submit a complete report back to it. Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers have been attacked on January 5 by a mob once they went to Sandeshkhali to go looking the premises of now-suspended Trinamool Congress chief Shajahan Sheikh in reference to alleged ration distribution rip-off case.
The Supreme Court had on April 15 granted two weeks to the Lok Sabha Secretariat and others to file their replies to a plea moved by high bureaucrats from West Bengal against their summoning by the privileges committee of the Lower House of Parliament. They have been summoned by the Committee of Privileges of the Lok Sabha over a criticism of “misconduct” filed against them by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Sukanta Majumdar when he was making an attempt to go to violence-hit Sandeshkhali, a village in North 24 Parganas district of the state.
On February 19, the highest court docket stayed the notices issued by the privileges committee to the West Bengal chief secretary, director normal of police (DGP) and others.
