Bengal post-poll violence: CM Mamata Banerjee approaches Calcutta HC seeking stay on its interim order – Times Now

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Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday approached Calcutta High Court seeking a stay on its interim order on the alleged post-poll violence.

This comes after the Calcutta HC had on Saturday slammed the West Bengal government for not curbing the post-poll violence in the state.

“It is the state government’s duty to control the violence in the state and build confidence amongst the citizens. The TMC government has been completely inactive over the alleged post-poll violence situation and is not taking any action against the complaints of violence,” the high court had observed.

Calcutta HC asks NHRC to probe post-poll violence cases

Earlier on Friday, the high court directed the National Human Rights Commission to form a committee and review the post-poll violence situation in West Bengal and submit the report before the court by June 30.

While hearing a bunch of PILs alleging post-poll violence in Bengal, a five-judge bench of the high court has directed that the committee will investigate all the cases, the complaints of which have already been received by the NHRC or which may be received, and “maybe by visiting the affected areas” and submit a comprehensive report to it about the present situation.

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The Calcutta HC bench has also directed the state government to provide all logistic support to the committee wherever and whenever they wish to visit any place and to ensure there is no obstruction of any kind in this process. “Such obstruction will be viewed seriously, which may entail action under the Contempt of Courts Act besides others,” the bench said in its order. 

Source: https://www.timesnownews.com/india/west-bengal/article/bengal-post-poll-violence-cm-mamata-banerjee-approaches-calcutta-hc-seeking-stay-on-its-interim-order/773207