Supreme Court grants interim protection to West Bengal BJP leaders amid an ongoing center-state tussle. Union Home Secretary likely to meet WB Chief Secretary and DGP virtually over law and order situation in the state
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday granted relief to five Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, who had approached the Court alleging witch-hunt by the West Bengal Police.
A three-judge Bench of Justices SK Kaul, Hrishikesh Roy, and Dinesh Maheshwari, ruled that that “no coercive action” should be taken against Arjun Singh, Kailash Vijayvargiya, Pawan Singh, Sourav Singh, and Mukul Roy’s till the next date of hearing.
The apex court also issued a notice to the West Bengal government to transfer the investigation of their cases to an independent probe agency.
Meanwhile, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla is likely to hold a meeting with West Bengal Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay and Director General of Police Virendra on Friday evening over the deteriorating law and order situation in the state, a home ministry official said.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had summoned the top two bureaucrats to Ministry following the attack on BJP president JP Nadda cavalcade on December 10 during his visit to the Diamond Harbour area of Kolkata, allegedly by the TMC workers, but both of them expressed their inability to come to Delhi at that time.
The MHA again sent a letter to them on Thursday asking them to come to New Delhi for a meeting today. The Centre has taken a stern view on the recent attack on BJP chief’s entourage on December 10 and had sought a report from the State Government and from the Governor as well.