The Calcutta High Court will deliver its verdict on a bunch of petitions seeking an impartial probe into the alleged post-poll violence in West Bengal. According to the ’cause list’ posted by the high court on Wednesday, a five-judge bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal will pronounce the verdict on the matter.
The bench had ordered an inquiry committee of the NHRC to look into the allegations of human rights violations during the “post-poll violence”. The panel, in its report, blamed the Mamata Banerjee government, as it had recommended handing over the probe into serious crimes. The CBI should try the cases of rape and murder and said that the trial should take place outside the state. The NHRC committee report said that other cases should be investigated by a court-monitored Special Investigation Team (SIT) and fast-tracked to the decision. There should be courts, special public prosecutors and a witness protection scheme.
On August 3, the hearing in the matter concluded and the bench, which also included Justices IP Mukherjee, Harish Tandon, Soumen Sen and Subrata Talukdar, reserved the order.
The PILs alleged that as a result of the post-poll violence in West Bengal, people were thrashed, ransacked and their property destroyed and demanded a fair investigation and protection of life and liberty. done. Opposing the findings and recommendations of the NHRC committee report, senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, representing the state DGP, had claimed during the submissions that it was wrong and biased.
Claiming that some members of the NHRC panel had links with the opposition BJP, he prayed that this be dismissed by the court. The committee, in its scathing remarks in the final report, had said, “It was retaliatory violence by supporters of the ruling party against the supporters of the main opposition party.” Stating that the lives and livelihoods of thousands of people were disrupted as a result of the acts of violence. And their economic strangulation, the report said, “has been grossly abandoned by the local police, if not a participant, in this violence.” Denying the alleged inaction by the police, State Advocate General Kishor Dutta had submitted that FIRs were registered by the police suo motu in several cases apart from those sent by the NHRC.
Additional Solicitor General YJ Dastur, appearing for the Union of India, had said that he was ready to be probed by any central investigating agency like the CBI as per the order of the High Court.
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