'What About Bengal?': Tripura's Rebuttal To Communal Violence Plea
NDTV
Tripura violence: The state government has asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the petition that sought an independent probe.
Accusing the petitioner of "unclean hands" and "selective outrage", the BJP government in Tripura has filed a strongly-worded objection to a plea in the Supreme Court which sought an independent probe into incidents of communal violence that took place in the state last October.
Questioning the petitioner's "silence" on the violence in Bengal before and after last year's elections, the Tripura government labelled the Public Interest Litigation "selective public interest" and called for a for an "exemplary cost" to be imposed upon the petitioner.
The state government has asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the petition and has pointed out that the top court had refused to intervene when a plea which had sought a probe into the Bengal post-poll violence was brought before it. The Supreme Court had asked the petitioners to approach High Court instead.
"The so-called 'public spirit' of the petitioners did not move few months back in a larger scale of communal violence and suddenly their 'public spirit' aroused due to some instances in a small state like Tripura," the state government's filing read.
