HC stays EC's preventive action order against 'troublemakers'
Kolkata/New Delhi, April 23 -- The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday stayed an order from the Election Commission's police observer, who had directed the West Bengal director general of police (DGP) to take preventive action against several citizens terming them as "troublemakers" ahead of the first-phase polling in the eastern state.
A division bench of chief justice Sujoy Paul and justice Partha Sarathi Sen held that the police observer had "erred in issuing a blanket direction by treating certain citizens as troublemakers" and stayed the April 21 order till June 30. The order came on a PIL filed by advocate Md Danish Farooqui, alleging that people's fundamental right to liberty would be affected by the order.
"In our prima facie view the ...
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