How Calcutta High Court orders have helped BJP in the ongoing elections
The High Court has delivered several significant verdicts that have given the Hindutva party ammunition to attack the TMC.
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The Calcutta High Court on Friday delivered yet another order with direct implications on the ongoing Lok Sabha election.
Justice Amrita Sinha restrained the West Bengal police from inquiring into complaints regarding firearms and large sums of cash allegedly found at the residence-cum-office of Suvendhu Adhikari, the Bharatiya Janata Party legislator who is the leader of opposition in the West Bengal assembly.
Adhikari seems to be in violation of the Election Commission of India’s Standard Operating Procedure for seizing and releasing cash and other items, according to which a sum of over Rs 50,000 in cash found with any party worker is to be taken into possession, lest it be used to induce voters. However, he is scot-free for now.
The High Court has stayed any investigation in this matter against Adhikari till June 17. Meanwhile, 17 of Bengal’s 42 Lok Sabha seats will go to polls on May 25 and June 1.
Scroll explains how the Calcutta High Court has played an unusually outsized role in the Lok Sabha election in Bengal. This led legal academic Anuj Bhuwania to remark that the “West Bengal elections seems to be a contest between the state government and [the] Calcutta High Court”.
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