Any reason behind raids to identify Bangladeshis, asks Calcutta HC
The HC is hearing multiple habeas corpus petitions on the illegal detention of Bengali-speaking migrants in Odisha and the case of six persons, including children, being pushed into Bangladesh, report Subrata Chattoraj & Srishti Lakhotia.
"Let these issues be cleared. Else, it will send out a wrong message. There can be a wrong act. Allegations have been made that people are being illegally pushed into Bangladesh only for speaking Bengali," a division bench of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Reetobroto Kumar Mitra said.
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HC calls for affidavits from state, Delhi Police
The HC also called for affidavits from the state and the Delhi Police over the deportation of a family of three from Birbhum to Bangladesh.
State senior counsel Kalyan Bandyopadhyay submitted that anyone speaking in Bengali could not be deported. "Who will decide? The appropriate authority is not the police or the constable. You cannot detain and deport anyone for speaking Bengali. There is a procedure," Bandyopadhyay said, seeking to know how many such Bengali-speaking people had been detained so far in the police drive and how many of them had been "pushed" out of India.
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Delhi Police senior counsel Dhiraj Trivedi submitted that no one was being deported for speaking Bengali and brought up a parallel with the Pahalgam carnage. "Around 165 people in Kashmir, including those who spoke in Bengali, were arrested after the incident but everyone was released," he said, prompting Bandyopadhyay to take exception to the Pahalgam reference. Trivedi then said he would say what he had to say in the affidavit.
Union govt senior counsel Asoke Kumar Chakraborty wondered whether a habeas corpus writ could be filed in a court after a deportation order (the deported persons' kin had filed the writ six days ago). The bench called for affidavits after being informed that the habeas corpus writ had been filed here suppressing the fact that a similar plea had already been filed in the Delhi High Court by the family's kin.
The petitioners' counsel, Raghunath Chakraborty, came under fire when he pleaded that the relatives had no knowledge of the case pending in the Delhi HC. "Do not try to play tricks. Was it not your duty to ascertain whether they had earlier moved any other court? Do you think our orders are just scraps of paper? What sort of conduct is this? The petitioner should have put in a line that a petition was pending in the Delhi HC," Justice Chakaborty said, adding: "You are creating tension by not stating facts.
This is not expected from a senior lawyer."
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