UPDATED: May 27, 2021 08:14 IST
Standing her ground: Mamata Banerjee emerges from the CBI office in Kolkata, May 17
Though it put a brave face on its rejection by the people, the BJP is unlikely to forget its electoral humiliation in West Bengal in a hurry. The saffron camp first escalated the post-poll violence into an issue meriting President’s rule. But when it realised the move reeked of political vendetta, the party pulled out another old weapon in its arsenal the Narada scam.
It began with West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar acceding to the CBI’s (Central Bureau of Investigation) request to prosecute four Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders on May 7. Strangely, the CBI had made the request sometime in January this year. The governor chose to respond to it three days before Mamata’s cabinet, which included two of the accused ministers, was to be sworn in.
KOLKATA: A designated MP/MLA court on Monday forwarded a case of defamation brought against Union home minister Amit Shah by Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee to the Metropolitan Magistrate court over jurisdiction issues.
The court, which had issued summons to Shah to either appear personally or through a counsel on Monday, took note of his lawyer Brajesh Jha s submission that the address of the home minister mentioned in those was incorrect.
Banerjee s lawyer Sanjay Basu said two addresses were then provided to the court, one of Delhi and another of Ahmedabad.
The address provided earlier by the complainant was of the BJP office in Kolkata.
Synopsis
Hearing both the parties, the special judge directed that the matter be sent to the Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Kolkata since the addresses were beyond the MP/MLA court s jurisdiction.
A designated MP/MLA court on Monday forwarded a case of defamation brought against Union Home Minister Amit Shah by Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee to the Metropolitan Magistrate Court here over jurisdiction issues. The court, which had issued summons to Shah to either appear personally or through a counsel on Monday, took note of his lawyer Brajesh Jha s submission that the address of the home minister mentioned in those was incorrect.
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