Kolkata, April 22 -- A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed in the Calcutta high court, accusing the poll panel of preparing a list of Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders and workers to be arrested after the Election Commission's directive to the state's director general of police to take preventive action against around 800 alleged "troublemakers" ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections triggered a row.

A division bench of chief justice of Calcutta high court Sujoy Paul and justice Partha Sarathi Sen, however, put an interim stay on the EC order on Wednesday and said that for exercising the power of preventive action, the authorities would have to proceed strictly in accordance with relevant detention law.

"It has been observed ...