Contempt case: High Court wants affidavit in six weeks

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Posted online: Saturday , February 02, 2008 at 01:58:04
Updated: Saturday , February 02, 2008 at 02:15:14

Kolkata, February 1 The Calcutta High Court directed Left Front chairman Biman Bose and CPM leaders Benoy Konar and Shyamal Chakraborty today to file an affidavit within six weeks in the contempt of court case against them.

The matter will come up for hearing after eight weeks.

The three leaders had allegedly passed remarks on a judgment of the court after the Nandigram firing incident of March, 14, 2007.

The comments were made on November 17 while addressing a rally in central Kolkata.

Bose had said: “We feel the court has interfered in the state’s domain. If the High Court has the last word on everything, what is the use of having a legislature and an executive? Will the court decide the government’s course of action?” Benoy Konar and Shyamal Chakraborty, who were also present at the rally, had also attacked the judiciary.

Following this, the Bar Association and Bar Library Club moved a petition to the High Court complaining that these kind of remarks should be considered as “contempt of court”.

In their plea, the Bar Association and the Bar Library Club had alleged that the CPM leaders had launched a deliberate attack on the judiciary.

The division bench of Chief Justice S S Nijjar and Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghosh, which is hearing the case, had asked the Registrar General of Calcutta High Court to issue contempt notices to the leaders on January 11, asking them why criminal contempt proceedings should not be initiated against them.

Today, advocate Subroto Mukhopadyay, counsel for Biman Bose, asked for more time for response on his behalf, which was granted by the court.

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