West Bengal Post Poll Violence Case : Supreme Court Hearing LIVE UPDATES

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28 Sep 2021 6:55 AM GMT

  • West Bengal Post Poll Violence Case : Supreme Court Hearing LIVE UPDATES

    The Supreme Court is hearing the petition filed by the State of West Bengal against the August 19 order of the Calcutta High Court directing CBI investigation into cases of murder, rape and offences against women which happened during the post-poll violence in the state.Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal is appearing for the West Bengal Government before a bench comprising Justices Vineet Saran...

    The Supreme Court is hearing the petition filed by the State of West Bengal against the August 19 order of the Calcutta High Court directing CBI investigation into cases of murder, rape and offences against women which happened during the post-poll violence in the state.

    Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal is appearing for the West Bengal Government before a bench comprising Justices Vineet Saran and Aniruddha Bose.

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    • 28 Sep 2021 7:17 AM GMT

      Sibal: No victim should be left without a remedy, on any level whatsoever.

      Sibal: Before you come to such conclusion there has to be evidence on record.

    • 28 Sep 2021 7:14 AM GMT

      Sibal :  Court thinks all this can happen in 4 days, we still did it. Then impugned order is passed on Aug 19th. List of dates itself tells you the breach of natural justice. In Muzaffarnagar Riots case this court took 5 months to analyse each case.


    • 28 Sep 2021 7:12 AM GMT

      Sibal : As an officer of the Court, I tell, no victim will be left without remedy. It is the duty of the state to deal with the crimes in accordance with law and the State will do, whether the cases are political or not political.

    • 28 Sep 2021 7:10 AM GMT

      Sibal: Annexure relating to rape cases wasn’t given to us, on grounds that you will know names of the complaint. I understand, you can’t disclose it to private party. But how can you not disclose it to State? They say it can’t be given under IPC!


    • 28 Sep 2021 7:09 AM GMT

      Justice Saran: Interim report copy wasn’t given to you?

      Sibal: No. And they relied on the report and made scathing observations against us.

    • 28 Sep 2021 7:08 AM GMT

      Sibal submits that the High Court refused to furnish the state the copy of the interim report filed by the NHRC Committee.

    • 28 Sep 2021 7:07 AM GMT

      Justice Saran: Which are 3 members that you’ve objection to.

      Sibal: The first three, Rajiv Jain, Atif Rasheed, Rajulben L. Desai


    • 28 Sep 2021 7:06 AM GMT

      Sibal: Next issue is if you can en masse transfer the cases to CBI. Principle evolved is that transfer is case by case. You can’t say I have received 100 complaints. I’ll transfer it without looking it on a case to case basis! There’s no en masse transfer of cases!


    • 28 Sep 2021 7:06 AM GMT

      Justice Saran : So there are 2 aspects to your submissions. Adequate time was not given to you and whatever you had filed were not considered.

      Sibal agrees.



    • 28 Sep 2021 7:05 AM GMT

      Sibal says principles of natural justice were violated. He submits that the High Court allowed only 7 days time to the State to respond to the matter

      "You give only 7 days time to file response to 1000s of complaints! In a federal structure, nobody can complete investigation with 7 days"- Sibal.





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