Calcutta High Court Directs WB Police To Submit Details Of All Cases Registered Against BJP Leader Suvendu Adhikari, Restrains Coercive Action

The Calcutta High Court has called for case diaries of all police complaints registered against BJP Leader of Opposition in West Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari to be placed before the Court.

This comes in an ongoing hearing into Adhikari's plea against the criminal cases registered against him, on the grounds that the same was being done due to the State's vendetta at him switching political allegiances from the TMC to the BJP.

A single bench of Justice Jay Sengupta also directed the police to not take any coercive action against Adhikari till the case diaries were furnished before the court. This follows an earlier order by Justice Rajasekhar Mantha, which directed the police not to register any FIRs against Adhikari without leave of the court. 

Notably, Adhikari has also been accused of storing firearms and cash in the lead-up to the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, in his residential office. The police investigation into the same had also earlier been stayed by a single bench of Justice Amrita Sinha. 

In adjourning the present hearing, Justice Sengupta directed for the police to place the case diaries by 8th August, and not take any coercive action against Adhikari till then.