Identify those behind posters outside judge’s home: Calcutta high court – Times of India

KOLKATA: A Calcutta High Court division bench on Tuesday directed the Kolkata Police commissioner to identify those who had pasted protest posters outside Justice Rajasekhar Mantha’s Jodhpur Park residence last week and ordered a ban on protests, meetings and rallies in the high court premises till the the contempt proceedings initiated by the judge were heard out.
Justice Mantha initiated the contempt proceedings last week after a section of lawyers blockaded his court and posters, protesting against his orders “providing protection from arrest” to BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari, were found outside his residence on January 9.
The bench, comprising Justice T S Sivagnanam, Justice I P Mukerji and Justice Chittaranjan Dash, also directed the police commissioner to apprise it where and under whose instructions the posters were printed. The bench directed the Lake police station to submit all the posters and related documents to the commissioner’s office.
“I do not know Bengali. I gathered from an English daily that a section of lawyers had taken out a protest rally and held placards. I could recognise three of them from the photograph that appeared in the newspaper. Don’t force me to make those names public,” Justice Sivagnanam observed.