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FIR against Biman Bose to be filed this evening
Kolkata, May 10: An FIR would be filed against Left Front chairman Biman Bose for allegedly inciting CPI(M) cadres to prevent EC observers from performing their duties in the state, West Bengal`s Chief Electoral Officer Basudev Bandopadhyay said here today.
Kolkata, May 10: An FIR would be filed against Left
Front chairman Biman Bose for allegedly inciting CPI(M)
cadres to prevent EC observers from performing their duties in
the state, West Bengal's Chief Electoral Officer
Basudev Bandopadhyay said here today.
The Election Commission last night took cognisance of media reports about Bose's unsavoury and provocative comments against the commission and asked the state's CEO to file an FIR against him under IPC 153, 171c (2), 189, 503, 504 and 505 (1).
The CEO said that he received the EC order this morning and the draft of the FIR would be ready by evening.
''The FIR will be filed at the Taltola police station in Central Kolkata,'' he said, adding that modalities of the FIR were being worked out.
The EC took a strong view of Biman Bose's alleged threats to poll observers, and warned of countermanding the Lok Sabha elections in the state if ruling CPI(M) workers vitiated the electoral process following his utterances. EC spokesman A N Jha said that Bose's remarks that CPI(M) activists would grab poll observers by their collars and put them in police custody was tantamount to directly interfering with the discharge of constitutional duties of the commission.
The commission, he said, was also issuing a show cause notice to the CPI(M) on why action should not be taken for intefering in the functioning of the election observers, Jha said.
Meanwhile, Bose denied having made any comment against EC poll observers for the state, but claimed that complaints received from some areas suggested that 'some observers were acting beyond their jurisdiction'.
Bureau Report
The Election Commission last night took cognisance of media reports about Bose's unsavoury and provocative comments against the commission and asked the state's CEO to file an FIR against him under IPC 153, 171c (2), 189, 503, 504 and 505 (1).
The CEO said that he received the EC order this morning and the draft of the FIR would be ready by evening.
''The FIR will be filed at the Taltola police station in Central Kolkata,'' he said, adding that modalities of the FIR were being worked out.
The EC took a strong view of Biman Bose's alleged threats to poll observers, and warned of countermanding the Lok Sabha elections in the state if ruling CPI(M) workers vitiated the electoral process following his utterances. EC spokesman A N Jha said that Bose's remarks that CPI(M) activists would grab poll observers by their collars and put them in police custody was tantamount to directly interfering with the discharge of constitutional duties of the commission.
The commission, he said, was also issuing a show cause notice to the CPI(M) on why action should not be taken for intefering in the functioning of the election observers, Jha said.
Meanwhile, Bose denied having made any comment against EC poll observers for the state, but claimed that complaints received from some areas suggested that 'some observers were acting beyond their jurisdiction'.
Bureau Report