SC refuses to entertain plea for probe into alleged assault on Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram

The Supreme Court Friday refused to entertain a plea searching for path for investigation by an unbiased probe company just like the CBI into the March 10 incident the place West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had sustained leg harm after an alleged assault on her in Nandigram.
“You go to the Calcutta High Court,” a bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde instructed the counsel showing for the petitioners.
The bench, additionally comprising Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian, allowed the petitioners’ lawyer to withdraw the plea with liberty to method the excessive court docket.
On March 10, Banerjee had alleged that she was attacked by “four-five men” in Nandigram, injuring her left leg, hours after she filed nomination from the seat the place the BJP has pitted her protege-turned-adversary Suvendu Adhikari within the Assembly election.
The plea, filed within the apex court docket by petitioners Shubham Awasthi and two others, had claimed that the alleged assault on a Constitutional functionary must be investigated by an unbiased company just like the CBI and the probe findings must be made public to strengthen the voters confidence.
It had sought instructions to the involved authorities to have pointers to deal with such incidents in future and for creation of a short lived physique with intensive powers to look into ballot violence and punish the perpetrators.
The plea had additionally sought a path for enhanced punishment for ballot violence.
“Such an attack on a Constitutional functionary violates the idea of a free and fair elections and has given free reign to political parties to influence voters,” the plea, filed via advocate Vivek Narayan Sharma, had mentioned.
It had claimed that for the reason that alleged assault, the environment in West Bengal has been full of allegations and counter allegations by completely different political events.
“Poll violence is an anathema to the idea of free and fair elections and they need to be investigated in order to…achieve the goals which guide the functioning of a democracy,” it had mentioned.