Yesterday, the Supreme Court of India refused to entertain an appeal of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari challenging a Calcutta High Court order rejected his contempt plea against the West Bengal Director General of Police (DGP) and other police officials.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra told senior advocate P S Patwalaia, appearing for the leader of opposition in the state assembly, that it was not going to hear this plea.
“Not in this…, come to us in some better case,” the bench said, prompting Patwalia to withdraw the petition.
In the said matter, last year, the Calcutta High Court, rejected the plea of Adhikari seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against Director General of Police Manoj Malviya and others, including IPS officer Biswajit Ghosh and Kalyan Sarkar, for not permitting him to visit Paschim Medinipur district’s Netai village.
Earlier, the Court issued a notice on the contempt plea, later dismissed it saying it cannot be categorically said that there was a wilful breach of undertaking by the state “in the strict sense.”
It had said that there was sufficient material to justify the claim of the alleged contemnors that there would be a flagrant violation of the law and order situation in the event Adhikari was allowed to go through, which might have prompted the police authorities to prevent him from doing so, as it would create a risk of “inciting the highly volatile situation in Netai village”.
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