India, April 29 -- The Calcutta high court on Tuesday declined to pass any order on a plea seeking action against Ajay Pal Sharma, an IPS officer from Uttar Pradesh posted as a police observer in West Bengal, stating that it will not pass any order concerning any officer on election duty till April 29, when the second phase of the West Bengal assembly polls is scheduled.

Later in the day, a petition was filed the Supreme Court accusing Pal of being "highly partisan and acting contrary to the role prescribed to him".

On Tuesday, a lawyer verbally pleaded for an order restraining Sharma, an Election Commission-appointed police observer for the South 24 Parganas district, from acting in the zone.

The lawyer alleged that Sharma was violati...