A Bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi disposed of the West Bengal government's plea challenging the Calcutta High Court's January 28 order, which had left it open for the Centre to deploy central forces and to consider invoking the NIA Act.
The West Bengal government has moved the Supreme Court challenging a Calcutta High Court order that left it open for the Centre to step in and deploy Central Armed Forces following violent agitation in Beldanga, Murshidabad, in mid-January that led to arson and damage to public property.<
The National Investigation Agency has taken over the probe into the violent unrest that shook Beldanga in West Bengal's Murshidabad district after the death of a migrant worker.
Ghosh said that such incidents have continued over the years under the current government and claimed that people of West Bengal were now expressing their resentment over the situation.