Today (16 Feb 2024), the Supreme Court agreed to review a petition seeking a court-monitored CBI or SIT investigation into the unrest in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali village. The PIL, filed just a day prior, was promptly brought to the attention of a bench consisting of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra for urgent consideration.
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court agreed to review the possibility of listing a PIL that requests a court-monitored CBI or SIT investigation into the violence that occurred in the village of Sandeshkhali, West Bengal.
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Just one day after its submission, the PIL was promptly brought for urgent listing before a bench presided over by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.
“Have you sent an email (seeking urgent hearing)? ”
-the CJI asked.
When PIL petitioner and lawyer Alakh Alok Srivastava answered in the affirmative, the CJI said,
“I will deal with this in the afternoon”.
The plea filed by Srivastava in his personal capacity, also seeks compensation for victims of the Sandeshkhali violence and action against officials of the West Bengal Police for alleged dereliction of duty.
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The plea also seeks transfer of the probe and subsequent trial outside West Bengal.
Besides, it seeks an inquiry by a three-judge committee as done in the Manipur violence case.
Sandeshkhali, a village in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, has been witnessing protests over allegations of sexual abuse of women by a local TMC leader.
Several women in the region have accused the local Trinamool Congress strongman Shajahan Sheikh and his supporters of land-grab and sexually assaulting them under coercion.
Shajahan has been absconding after a mob, allegedly affiliated to him, attacked Enforcement Directorate officials who had gone to search his premises in connection with a corruption case.
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