Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Wednesday ruled out arrest or harassment of Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjeee before the upcoming Assembly elections in connection with a 17-year-old case.
"There is no question of arresting or harassing Mamata Banerjee before the Assembly elections," Bhattacharjee told a press conference here.
The CPM on Tuesday asked the Election Commission (EC) to execute all non-bailable warrants, including those issued in connection with violent incidents at Barasat in 1994 in which the police had registered FIRs against Mamata, among others.
In a memorandum to Chief EC S Y Quraishi, who led a team on a two-day review of poll preparedness in the state, the CPM referred to the 17-year-old incident at Kacharimore in Barasat in which police had carried out a lathicharge. Then DIG (PR) Rachpal Singh was injured in the violence.
"The police had then registered an FIR against Mamata," the CPM memorandum had said while referring to the incident in North 24-Parganas district.
Rachpal Singh, now a retired IPS officer, incidentally is now a Trinamool Congress candidate from Tarakeswar seat.
Reacting to the CPM memorandum, Trinamool Congress general secretary Mukul Roy on Tuesday wondered as to what had prevented the police from taking any action in the last 17 years.
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