#BREAKING | Lawyer from #WestBengal seeks contempt of court proceedings against CM Mamata Banerjee @koustavcp has written to the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court requesting him to take suo-moto cognizance of the "defamatory and/or malicious and/or hate speech" by @MamataOfficial against the judiciary from a political rally. [Read Letter]
Alleged contemptuous statements by #WestBengal Chief Minister @MamataOfficial Banerjee against the High Court of Calcutta:
Alleged contemptuous statements by #WestBengal Chief Minister @MamataOfficial Banerjee against the High Court of Calcutta:
The lawyer writes that this is not the 1st time that CM Mamata Banerjee has indulged in such behaviour. He points out an instance from 2012 when she addressed the West Bengal Assembly alleging that court orders were being passed in exchange for money. "Why will judgments only be given in favour of people who offer money?", she had alleged then, challenging that she could "be arrested and put in jail for this" but had to express her "point of view".
Adv. Koustav Bagchi was reportedly a spokesperson for @INCIndia, who was also arrested by West Bengal police last year for alleged derogatory remarks against CM Mamata Banerjee. The Calcutta High Court had ordered an interim stay on all criminal proceedings by the @KolkataPolice against Bagchi, and also granted him armed protection.
Bagchi's remarks were made in response to @MamataOfficial's comments on Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. After the Trinamool Congress's defeat in Murshidabad’s Sagardighi assembly seat, Banerjee had launched a personal attack on Chowdhury, referring to his daughter’s suicide and driver’s unnatural death and claimed she was deliberately not speaking in details on this issue.
The #Calcutta High Court has permitted the filing of contempt petitions against #WestBengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her remarks on the High Court after it cancelled the appointments of nearly 24,000 teachers in the #SSC recruitment scam matter. The move came after a mentioning by Senior Advocate and Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] leader Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya on Thursday, urging the Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharya for suo-motu action. "We do cases before the Hon'ble Court by toiling the midnight oil... Now somebody is accusing that judges of the High Court, and the entire High Court have been sold!" Bhattacharya submitted. @CPIM_WESTBENGAL | @MamataOfficial | #RecruitmentScam
#CalcuttaHighCourt allows filing of contempt pleas against West Bengal Chief Minister #MamataBanerjee. @MamataOfficial | @MLJ_GoI | @shreyagarwal_12 Read full: rb.gy/p1uzit