New Delhi, April 2 -- Taking a serious note of the attack on judicial officers on Special Intensive Revision (SIR) duty in West Bengal, the Supreme Court said on Thursday the incident was a "brazen attempt" to affect the morale of the officers on duty and a challenge to the authority of the Supreme Court.
In the wake of a gherao and attack on judicial officers performing SIR duties in a village in West Bengal's Malda district, a bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant, Justices Joymalya Bagchi, and Vipul Pancholi took up the matter, though the case was not listed.
The court urgently took up the West Bengal SIR matter following a letter from the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court regarding yesterday's incidents in the poll-bound st...