A Kolkata court on Friday denied bail to 13 people arrested for allegedly attacking police and Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) officials during a confrontation over the removal of an unauthorised billboard outside Trinamool Congress leader (TMC) Abhishek Banerjee’s office on Camac Street, lawyers who attended the hearing said.
We won’t go to court from now on. “The billboard was illegal as per KMC norms. Police accompanies KMC officials deployed to remove illegal billboards. We are reviewing video footages to see who were involved in the use of physical force. Action will be taken on that basis. “This government needs Central forces to function. For four months we sought your permission for every political event and had to move court when you refused. Why should we go to court? It has to hear thousands of cases. Now I will start touring the districts. “We will deal with the matter in court. We will not allow any illegal activity.
The Bankshall court remanded all 13 people, who were arrested between Thursday evening and Friday morning, to police custody until September 3. We never needed (them) in 15 years.
Meanwhile, the Calcutta high court denied relief to Banerjee, who filed a petition on this issue, lawyers said. There is a difference between protest and physical resistance,” Nand said. “The arrested people have been charged with obstructing government officers from doing their duty,” Nand added. Police was not like this during my tenure,” Banerjee said at a rally held in Kolkata observing the foundation day of TMC’s students’ wing, the Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad (TMCP). Stop me if you can,” Banerjee said. The way Abhishek Banerjee behaved with the police does not suit a parliament member,” Paul said.
Kolkata police commissioner Ajay Kumar Nand said on Friday that more people would be charged after reviewing video footage of Thursday’s incident. “Three young Muslim men who were in Camac Street were arrested today after they went to a mosque to offer namaz.
