HC snub for Mamata Banerjee, rejects plea to recall NHRC probe into post-poll violence

The West Bengal government had on Sunday filed an affidavit before the Calcutta High Court, appealing it to recall its previous judgment directing the NHRC to examine all cases of alleged post-poll violence in the state.

In a major blow to the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal, the Calcutta High Court on Monday dismissed the government's plea seeking a recall of a judgment by a five-judge bench that directed the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to examine all cases of alleged human rights violations during post-poll violence in the state. A five-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal, dismissed the plea of the TMC government for recalling the order passed on June 18. The order came in respect of a bunch of petitions alleging displacement of people from their residences, physical assault, destruction of property and ransacking of places of business owing to post-poll violence in the state. The bench then directed the chairperson of the NHRC to form a panel to examine all cases of alleged human rights violations and submit a comprehensive report before it about the present situation after "may be by visiting the affected areas".