Greeva Garg –
The Calcutta High court took up four election petitions by the Trinamool Congress Candidates, who had lost to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the recent assembly elections when results were declared by the Election Commission.
These four petitions heard by the High Court were apart from that of Mamata Banerjee’s high profile election petition against BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari.
The petitions were heard before four different Benches of the Calcutta High Court.
The hearing in Trinamool candidate Sangram Kumar Dolai’s petition challenging the election of former India cricketer Ashoke Dinda of the BJP from Moyna was adjourned by Justice Tirthankar Ghosh to June 25.
Trinamool candidate, Manas Majumdar moved to the High Court, challenging the election of BJP’s candidate Biswanath Karak from Goghat. Justice Surva Ghosh in the presence of the petitioner in the court by virtual mode, issued notice to the respondents fixed the date of hearing of July 9.
Hearing the petition of Shantiram Mahato, a Trinamool candidate, against BJP’s Baneswar Mahota, who was declared winner in Balarampur, Justice Subhasis Dasgupta fixed the hearing of the matter on July 15.
The court directed that the pending decision in the case, the documents, election papers and devices connected to the poll under challenge be preserved by the authority concerned.
Justice Bibek Chaudhuri, hearing another petition by Trinamool candidate Alo Rani Sarkar challenging the election of BJP’s Swapan Majumdar from Bongaon Dakshin, fixed the hearing for July 16. The Court said that notice would be issued to him within two weeks from the date of this order, asking him to submit an affidavit-in-opposition, if any.
Earlier in the hearing, Justice Kausik Chanda adjourned Mamta Banerjee’s petition till June 24 for declaring the election of BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari from Nandigram null and void.