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KOLKATA: A Bidhannagar special court hearing cases against MPs and MLAs has issued summons to Union home minister Amit Shahseeking his appearance in court at 10am on February 22 in a 2018 criminal defamation case filed by Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee. Advocate Brajesh Jha, also BJP legal cell’s co-convener, said:
“We are looking at the legal aspects of the court order. We will take legal recourse.” The special court had in August 2018 taken cognisance of the complaint, filed under IPC Section 500 for criminal defamation. Banerjee had moved court after Shah had levelled several charges against him in an August 2018 “Yuva Swabhiman Samavesh Rally”. Banerjee’s lawyer, Sanjay Basu, said the summons was issued on Friday.
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Kolkata:
Kolkata municipal elections - to have been held in April but postponed because of the Covid pandemic - may be held by the end of March next year, weeks before the 2021 Assembly polls.
The Trinamool Congress had an overwhelming majority in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) after the last election, but the civic body has since been dissolved and is run by a state-appointed board of administrators, with the former mayor acting as Chairman.
The Urban Affairs department wrote to the state election commission (WBSEC) Tuesday, saying elections could be held four to six weeks of publication of final electoral rolls on January 15.