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The Calcutta High Court Thursday ordered the lodging of an FIR and a CID probe into TMC MP Tapas Paul’s alleged remarks in which he threatened to kill opposition members and rape their women.
Delivering the verdict, Justice Nishita Mhatre, before whom the matter was referred by the Chief Justice following a split order by a division bench of the high court, upheld the single bench order of Justice Dipankar Dutta that had directed lodging of an FIR and a CID probe into Paul’s remarks during a public meeting in Krishnanagar constituency in Nadia district. Justice Mhatre, however, said that there was no need for the court to monitor the investigation.
Justice Datta had on July 28 ordered that an FIR be registered against Paul and had asked for a court monitored probe in the matter by the CID. However, the West Bengal government had then appealed to the division bench.
Addressing a workers’ meeting at Chowmatha village in Nadia district on June 14, Paul said, “If any opponent touches any Trinamool girl, any father, any child, I will destroy his entire family…I will unleash my boys, they will rape them.”
Pal had later tendered an apology. “Some remarks made by me in the heat and dust of the poll campaign have caused dismay and consternation. I apologise,” he said.
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