"Today he (Nirapada Sardar) was granted interim bail by the Honourable Division bench primarily on the ground that while the FIR was lodged on February 9, the complaint relating to which the FIR was made was registered on February 10...This shows how grossly the police authorities have acted
"Democracy has been murdered in broad daylight by the Mamata government in West Bengal and what is left is the dictatorship of Didi," Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Mahila Morcha president Vanathi Srinivasan said on Tuesday.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai on Tuesday wrote a letter to his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee, demanding strict action against the perpetrators involved in "gang rape of more than 50 tribal women" in Sandeshkhali.
In a blistering attack on the ruling TMC after it blamed legal processes for the delay in the arrest of absconding strongman and Sandeshkhali accused Sheikh Shahjahan, Congress state chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Monday said laying the blame on the Calcutta High Court in the matter amounte
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla suggested that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal deserves a Nobel Prize for engaging in corruption across various sectors, a press release from the party read.
"There have been multiple attempts from various quarters to politicise the Sandeshkhali issue. Now that the court has clarified that there is no bar to arresting Sheikh Shahjahan. He will be arrested by the state police very soon," Ghose said.
"We are confident that Sheikh Shahjahan will be arrested within seven days," TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said in a joint press conference with state Minister Bratya Basu on Monday.
Amid tensions over the Sandeshkhali incident, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Monday said that the Governor's job is to see when the elected government takes action within the rule of law. If that is not done, then the governor will intervene.