Senior Advocate Kalyan Bandyopadhyay appeared for Banerjee before the High Court today and alleged that the case against his client was malicious.
Does it match the status of the petitioner (Abhishek Banerjee) being general secretary of political party?"
Bandyopadhyay replied that the question was whether the alleged statements had actually resulted in any violence as predicted by the complainant.
The Court, however, maintained that Banerjee should not have made such controversial remarks at all.
"Political history does not say so," retorted the Court,"Political history can be seen from the other (political) side," maintained Bandopadhyay"Whether such political statements, alleged slur was necessary?"
Senior Advocate Kalyan Bandyopadhyay appeared for Banerjee before the High Court today and alleged that the case against his client was malicious.
"This is against malicious prosecution immediately after the change of power," he said.
The Court, however, sharply criticised the remarks made by Banerjee.
"Why these statements were made? ... Why these irresponsible statements were made just before elections? There is black history so far as this State is concerned … Post poll violence. In media also, everywhere it was shown. Does it match the status of the petitioner (Abhishek Banerjee) being general secretary of political party?" the Court asked.
Bandyopadhyay replied that the question was whether the alleged statements had actually resulted in any violence as predicted by the complainant.
"The question is, was there effect of statement at all? Complainant has not cited any incident. If nothing has happened, it cannot be taken into cognisance," Bandyopadhyay said.
The Court, however, maintained that Banerjee should not have made such controversial remarks at all.
"Being a Member of Parliament, how such statement could have been made. That strikes conscience of court. I am repeating, these statements were uncalled for. What would have happened, if there were different results?" asked the Court
"Complete peace may be," replied Bandopadhyay.
"Political history does not say so," retorted the Court,
"Political history can be seen from the other (political) side," maintained Bandopadhyay
"Whether such political statements, alleged slur was necessary?" the Court went on to ask again.
Referring to the recent regime change in West Bengal, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) forming the government after years of TMC rule, the Court added,
"With a lot of expectations, people brought change. Time will say."
