Calcutta HC upholds CID probe, FIR against Tapas Paul
In yet another setback to the Mamata Banerjee government, the Calcutta High Court Thursday directed the filing of a police complaint and a CID probe into Trinamool Congress parliamentarian Tapas Paul’s ‘kill and rape’ remarks.
Rejecting the appeals by Paul and the state government, the court of Justice Nishita Mhatre upheld the order by the single bench of Justice Dipankar Datta, directing a CID probe against the actor-turned-politician.
Paul, who representing Krishnanagar Lok Sabha constituency in Nadia district, had created a nationwide outrage after he was caught on successive tapes exhorting his party men to kill CPI-M activists and threatening to unleash his boys to rape their women.
Thursday’s order comes a day after a high court bench directed a CBI probe into the 2013 murder of an independent panchayat member in Birbhum district in which district Trinamool president Anubrata Mondal was named in the first information report.
Justice Mhatre heard the appeals afresh after a division bench of Justice Girish Chandra Gupta and Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty delivered a split verdict.
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