Retired judge gets threat calls
A retired judge of Calcutta high court, who had criticised chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s recent comments about judiciary, has received threat calls. Justice Samaresh Banerjee who lives in Salt Lake has filed complaints with the Bidhan Nagar South police station.
Participating in a panel discussion on a local television channel on Tuesday, Justice Banerjee was critical of the chief minister’s judiciary remarks. He received a call from a person who identified himself as a reporter of a popular English daily. This was followed by another call. The caller said that the legal cell of Trinamul Congress was compiling a list of corrupt judges and his name figured in it.
The third call came on Thursday evening. The caller — a woman — spoke to his wife Sunanda Banerjee.
“She rudely told me to ask Justice Banerjee to watch out. She said that he would land in serious trouble and then she said something highly obscene,” Mrs Banerjee said. The caller threatened that Justice Banerjee might be implicated in a false case.
Mrs Banerjee noted down the number — her landline has a call ID — and immediately called up the officer-in-charge of Bidhan Nagar South police station. He came to her house and took down a written complaint from Justice Banerjee who had returned by then.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has lately been facing flak for her intolerance of any criticism of her government. A week ago, a poor farmer Shiladitya Chowdhury was arrested in Binpur in West Midnapore and he is languishing in jail. His only crime was that he had publicly questioned the chief minister in a rally.
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