Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court today ordered the lodging of an FIR and a CID probe into Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Pal’s alleged “shoot and rape” remarks against opposition party supporters and women.
Justice Dipankar Dutta, passing his verdict on a petition seeking CID investigation into Pal’s comments against women and other opposition party supporters at election rallies, directed that the high court would monitor the probe in view of West Bengal government’s stand that the complaint did not disclose any cognizable offence and that the state tried to back the MP.
Justice Dutta directed Inspector in charge of Nakashipara police station in Nadia district to treat the July one complaint by petitioner Biplab Chowdhury, a resident of Pal’s constituency Krishnagar in Nadia district, as an FIR.
Pal, whose controversial remarks against women had sparked outrage, had on July 1 tendered an unconditional apology to his party, saying that in making such comments he had let down his constituency and the people of the state.
“Some remarks made by me in the heat and dust of the election campaign (2014 Lok Sabha polls) have caused dismay and consternation. . I apologise unreservedly for them,” Pal had said in a written apology after a row broke out over the airing of the video of the remarks made by him at public meetings in his constituency.
Bureau Report
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