Calcutta HC orders two-member panel probe into rehabilitation of those affected by poll violence
India Today
The Calcutta High Court has asked a two-member panel to probe the rehabilitation of the people displaced during the post-poll violence in Bengal last year.
The Chief Justice's division bench of Calcutta High Court has ordered a two-member committee to probe the matter of rehabilitation of 300 individuals who were rendered homeless after the West Bengal Assembly elections.
The state has submitted that 70 people returned home, 43 did not want to return, and 155 were out of Bengal. The petitioner in the case, BJP's Priyanka Tibrewal, said that the report was fabricated.
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Following the results of the 2021 assembly elections, violence was reported in parts of West Bengal, where BJP supporters were allegedly attacked by Trinamool Congress workers. Many were rendered homeless in the violence. The case was handed over to the CBI.
