HC dismisses Bengal authorities’s plea for probe into post-poll violence, NHRC

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Calcutta High Court on Monday dismissed West Bengal authorities’s plea to withdraw its order directing the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) will examine all circumstances of alleged human rights violations within the post-poll violence within the state.

A five-judge bench of the High Court rejected the request of the West Bengal authorities to withdraw the order handed in respect of a bunch of PILs that sought to displace folks from their residences, bodily assaults, destruction of property. and was accused of sabotaging locations of enterprise. For post-poll violence within the state.

The bench had handed the order on June 18 being attentive to a report submitted by the member secretary of the West Bengal State Legal Services Authority which mentioned that as of the afternoon of June 10, 3,243 folks had been reported to be affected.

The Member Secretary of WBSLSA additional talked about that in lots of circumstances complaints had been despatched to the Superintendents of Police or the involved Police Stations however no response was obtained.

A five-judge bench of Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and Justices IP Mukherjee, Harish Tandon, Soumen Sen and Subrata Talukdar gave their The order directed the NHRC chairman to represent a committee to probe the matter.

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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS

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