‘Law & order breakdown’: SC slams gheraoing in Bengal

NEW DELHI: Taking beardown objection to the onslaught connected judicial officers complying with its bid to adjudicate objections regarding exclusion from elector database successful West Bengal’s Malda district, Supreme Court connected Thursday said determination is breakdown of instrumentality and bid successful the authorities and issued show-cause announcement to the main secretary, DGP, territory magistrate and SP to explicate wherefore enactment should not beryllium taken against them.

SC said it was a “deliberate and calculated” effort to demoralise the judicial officers and obstruct them from discharging their duty. This cannot beryllium tolerated, it said and directed the Election Commission to question deployment of cardinal forces for the extortion of the officers and their families successful the state. SC besides directed that a cardinal agency, either CBI oregon NIA, probe the incident.SC recorded successful its bid the harrowing acquisition which the 7 judicial officers, of whom 3 were women, had to spell done erstwhile they were ‘gheraoed’ by anti-social elements and held hostage till midnight.