Bengal In Denial Mode Over Publish-Election Violence: Calcutta Excessive Court docket

The Calcutta High Court said the state was caught on the wrong foot over post-poll violence.

Kolkata:

West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee government was strongly censured by the Calcutta High Court on Friday over violence that erupted in May following the elections, saying the administration was in “denial mode”.

Saying that there was enough evidence to establish post-poll violence, the high court said the state had been caught “on the wrong foot”.

“The state is in denial mode,” the judges said.

Acknowledging incidents of sexual violence on women and minors, the court sent a show cause notice to a senior police officer for failing to assist a National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) team that came to probe the allegations.

The BJP has repeatedly alleged that the state has gone soft on curbing post-poll violence that especially targetted its supporters and leaders following their defeat in the polls against the ruling Trinamool Congress.