India, May 15 -- Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Thursday told the Calcutta High Court that police remained passive during post-poll violence in West Bengal, while asserting that it is not a "bulldozer state", amid ongoing demolition drives against illegal structures.

The former chief minister, who appeared for the first time before the high court to argue a case in connection with alleged violence against workers and attacks on TMC party offices following the announcement of the 2026 assembly poll results, sought urgent judicial intervention to protect the people of the state from the attackers.

This was Banerjee's second appearance as lawyer before a court of law in recent times and the first since her party's electoral ...