West Bengal

IIE Digital Desk: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, through her advice, Monday had told the Calcutta HC that stood by her statement that women had been expressed about visiting Raj Bhavan in Kolkata and their were reecho in her comment. During the hearing defamation garb filed by CV Ananda Bose against her in the CM'S admonish opposed issurance of an interval order to suppress her from making further comments  in connection with the alleged incidents at Raj Bhavan. Bose, represented by his lawyer, had been sought to suppress Banerjee and two newly elected MLAs and TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh from making further comments in this regard. A single-judge bench of Justice Krishna Rao reserved the order. 

During hearing, Banerjee’s admonish, SN Mookherjee, said the CM’s remarks were a fair comment on issues of public interest and were thus not incorrect. Banerjee’s lawyer had submitted in merely echoed the apprehensions of women over certain alleged activities in Raj Bhavan. The admonish said he was ready to file an affidavit containing the names of women who had expressed their apprehensions about visiting to Raj Bhavan. On May 2, a legitimate woman employee of Raj Bhavan had made an allegation of molestation against Bose.Appearing for Bose,admonish Dhiraj Trivedi submitted the issue started with the Governor inviting two newly elected MLAs — Sayantika Banerjee and Reyat Hossain Sarkar — to take pledge at the Raj Bhavan. 

Stating they had written to him seeking to take pledge at the Assembly from the Speaker or Governor himself, he had submitted and it did not mention any apprehension or fear as allegedly suggested later. Trivedi argued since the pledge -taking ceremony was part of an administrative activity, it was unjustified to link a different subject in the matter. Mukherjee had argued that the application was not maintainable and claimed that the court of Justice Rao does not have jurisdiction to hear the matter. Mukherjee had also said that Banerjee’s statement about the delay in pledge-taking over the predicament as to where they would take the pledge was also not erroneous.