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Calcutta High Court Bars Coercive Action Against Abhishek Banerjee Until July 31

The order protects the TMC leader from arrest while allowing the probe to continue under strict conditions that require his in-person cooperation, 48-hour notice for summons, and court permission for foreign travel.

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Overview

  • The Calcutta High Court granted interim protection to Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday and directed police not to take any coercive step against him until July 31 or further orders.
  • The bench refused to quash the FIR registered at Bidhannagar Cyber Crime station over alleged inflammatory remarks made during the April–May campaign and said custodial interrogation was not needed at this stage.
  • The FIR invokes multiple provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and sections 123(2) and 125 of the Representation of the People Act, covering alleged promotion of enmity, criminal intimidation and election offences.
  • Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya criticized the alleged remarks as "irresponsible" given West Bengal’s record of post-poll violence and made protection conditional on Banerjee’s full cooperation with investigators.
  • The case is listed for further hearing in July and other TMC leaders have sought similar interim stays as several FIRs and some arrests have followed the state government change.