State is not against people with different ideology, says WB govt

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee collect her Swasthya Sathi card from an outreach camp Duare Sarkar, in Kolkata, on Tuesday. Pic/PTI

The Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that the state machinery is not going after people having a different political ideology.

The response from the state government came in an affidavit ahead of the Assembly elections, scheduled for early this year, in a case where advocate Shashank Shekhar Jha has sought a CBI/NIA probe into the mysterious death of a BJP MLA Debendra Nath Roy. On July 13, last year, Roy was found hanging from a tree. The incident had happened in the Raiganj police station area.

The affidavit by Atreyi Sen, deputy SP CID Malda Zone, maintained that Roy had committed suicide. "It is denied that the death of Roy was a political murder or that the state machinery was used or was an accomplice or involved in any manner causing such death", said the affidavit. The state government denied that there was involvement of the state machinery against people having a different political ideology or that it has made it impossible to trust the investigation carried out by the police officers of the same administration as falsely alleged. Agencies

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