West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday flayed the NHRC for “disrespecting the court docket” and pursuing “political vendetta” of the BJP by leaking its report on alleged post-poll violence to the media. Banerjee additionally expressed shock over the conclusion that the Nationwide Human Rights Fee arrived at in its report with out taking into consideration views of the state authorities.
“The BJP is now utilizing neutral companies to settle political scores and malign our state. The NHRC ought to have revered the court docket. As a substitute of leaking the findings to the media, it ought to have first submitted the identical to the court docket. “What would you name it aside from political vendetta of the BJP? It’s but to digest defeat (within the meeting polls) and that’s the reason the social gathering is resorting to such methods,” she advised a press convention right here.
Asserting that the state of affairs in West Bengal is a “manifestation of regulation of ruler as an alternative of rule of regulation”, an NHRC committee probing alleged incidents of post-poll violence within the state, in a report positioned earlier than the Calcutta Excessive Court docket, really useful a CBI probe into “grievous offences like homicide and rape”. On her go to to Delhi subsequent week, Banerjee stated she wish to meet the Prime Minister and the President if she “will get an appointment”.
“Each time after elections, I go to Delhi to fulfill outdated and new mates. So this time too, I might be going to the Nationwide Capital for few a days because the COVID-19 state of affairs is presently underneath management,” the chief minister stated.
NHRC Refutes Allegations
Hours after the claims, NHRC stated the accusations are “baseless and factually incorrect” because the copy of the report was shared with the advocates of the involved events on this matter in accordance with the instructions of the Calcutta Excessive Court docket.
The committee constituted by the NHRC to probe the post-poll violence had submitted its report back to the excessive court docket on July 13.
“On the additional instructions of the Hon’ble Court docket, the Committee supplied a duplicate of the stated report back to its Advocate in Calcutta, who shared with the Advocates of all of the involved events within the associated a number of writ petitions. The matter being sub -judice, the Committee of the NHRC didn’t share its report back to any entity aside from these specified by the Hon’ble Court docket,” the assertion stated.
The discharge additional stated that because the report is already accessible with all of the involved events as per the directives of the court docket, there is no such thing as a query of leakage on the degree of the NHRC.
The attribution concerning the alleged leakage of the stated Report back to the NHRC is completely baseless and factually incorrect, it stated.
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