Post-poll violence: Supreme Court points discover to Centre, West Bengal govt, EC over plea searching for SIT probe

The Supreme Court Thursday issued discover to the Centre, the West Bengal authorities, and the Election Commission of India on a plea searching for SIT investigation into the causes of post-poll violence in West Bengal, Bar and Bench reported
The bench led by Justice Vineet Saran was listening to advocate Hari Shankar Jain’s plea searching for instructions for a SIT probe into the post-poll violence.
Meanwhile, the Live Law reported Wednesday that the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has submitted a quick report back to the Calcutta High Court with respect to complaints towards displacement of individuals as a result of violence. The court docket has adjourned the matter until July 2 to look at the report.

Last week, the excessive court docket had dismissed a petition by the West Bengal authorities to recall the June 18 order wherein a five-judge bench of the High Court had directed the chairperson of the NHRC to represent a committee to look at all of the instances of alleged human rights violations throughout post-poll violence.
Following the court docket’s orders, on June 21, NHRC Chairperson Justice (retd) Arun Mishra had constituted the panel headed by former Intelligence Bureau chief Rajiv Jain. However, the NHRC staff reportedly confronted heckling and threats of violence in Jadavpur on Tuesday afternoon. The vice-chairman of the National Commission for Minorities, Atif Rasheed, who was with the staff, mentioned a mob had tried to hit and chase them, and that police personnel accompanying them had offered no assist.

In May, a trip bench of Justices Vineet Saran and B R Gavai had issued a discover to the Centre and the state authorities on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) searching for the SC’s intervention “to stop” post-poll violence within the state, to order an SIT probe into the alleged crimes and repair legal responsibility. In its reply, the TMC authorities, nonetheless, instructed the apex court docket that allegations that the state equipment was complicit within the violence are “false” and “misleading”.
The state additionally mentioned that not all incidents of violence may be categorised as “post-poll violence”, calling the allegations of state-sponsored violence “frivolous and politically motivated”.