The High Court in Calcutta on Wednesday questioned the justification of the Center for national raids focused on Bengal -speaking individuals and suspicion that they were illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. This comes after the government of West Bengal said Calcuttte HC that the development is “alarming”. The court later asked the Center and the State Government to submit an affidavit.
The divisional bench of Justices Tapabrat Chakraborty and Reetobroto Kumar Mitra, who heard the case, questioned: “What were the reasons?
The court listened to the Habeas Corpus petition filed by family members of Birbhum migrants, who deported to Bangladesh last month.
How is the argument?
The head of the advocate Kalyan Bandyopadyay, who appeared for the state of West Bengal in front of the division bench, noted that Delhi police could not hold people for the speaking of Bengal, and said, “Is this the Birbhum family …
He also demanded that the center would announce how many people have been deported to Bangladesh.
He replied that the advisor representing the central government claimed that no individual was deported only for the speaking of Bengal.
He said, “About 165 people in Kashmir, including some who spoke Bengal, were detained after the Pahalgam attack, but all were released later.”
He also pointed out that the relatives of those who were deported had already moved the Delhi High Court, which was the detail, as claimed, in the present case was intentionally detained.
The bench pulled the proposer’s council for hiding this fact and warning that the trial could not be misused. “Don’t play tricks on us,” said the bench.
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