Calcutta HC directs no coercive action against TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee over comments about Amit Shah
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The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the West Bengal Police not to take any coercive action against Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee till July 31 over his allegedly provocative remarks about Union Home Minister Amit Shah at political rallies during the Assembly election campaign, Live Law reported.
Justice Saugata Bhattacharya said that Banerjee did not need to be interrogated in custody, and that his rights were protected under Section 35(3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita. The provision states that in cases where a person does not need to be arrested in connection with an investigation, the police needs to send a notice requiring their presence during the investigation.
The judge directed Banerjee to cooperate with the investigative agency and comply with notices issued to him, Live Law reported. The police should give at least 48 hours’ time to the TMC MP in the notices, the court added.
However, Bhattacharya objected to Banerjee’s remark from a rally in which he had asked “which godfather” from Delhi would “come to their rescue” after the election results, in apparent references to Shah and Bharatiya Janata Party workers.
“Being a Member of Parliament, how such statement could have been made,” Bar and Bench quoted the judge as asking. “I am repeating, these statements were uncalled for.”
In response, Banerjee’s lawyer Kalyan Bandopadhyay, questioned whether...