A large number of women in Sandeshkhali had accused Trinamool Congress strongman Shajahan Sheikh and his supporters of "land-grab and sexually assaulting" them under coercion.
Meanwhile, members of the Sikh community planned to gherao the BJP's state headquarters on Muralidhar Lane in Kolkata in protest against the 'Khalistani' jibe, TMC sources said.
Hearing a plea by the state govt against a single-judge bench order staying the imposition of CrPC Section 144 in Sandeshkhali and permitting BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari to visit the area, a division bench of Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharya refused to interfere with the orders.