The Excessive Court docket has restrained Mamata Banerjee from issuing deceptive remarks towards Governor.
New Delhi:
The Calcutta Excessive Court docket at present restrained West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from making any defamatory or incorrect assertion towards Governor CV Ananda Bose, noting the liberty of speech is “not an unfettered proper” beneath which defamatory statements might be made.
“The defendants are restrained from making any defamatory or incorrect assertion towards the plaintiff (the Governor) by the use of publication and on social platforms until 14th August 2024,” the courtroom, which is able to subsequent hear the case on August 14, stated.
“If at this stage, an interim order isn’t granted it could give the free palms to the defendants to proceed making defamatory statements towards the plaintiff and proceed to tarnish the fame of the plaintiff,” it added.
Ms Banerjee’s lawyer Sanjay Basu stated in a press release that the order of the courtroom can be challenged earlier than the next bench.
The courtroom stated that the precise to freedom of speech and expression is “not an unfettered proper within the garb of which defamatory statements might be made to tarnish the fame of an individual”.
Mr Bose had sought to restrain Ms Banerjee, two newly elected MLAs and one other Trinamool Congress chief from issuing remarks in reference to alleged incidents at Raj Bhavan.
The Bengal Governor filed the defamation swimsuit towards Mamata Banerjee’s remark that girls had expressed concern about visiting the Raj Bhavan. She made the remark whereas expressing her displeasure over the confusion concerning the oath-taking ceremony of two newly elected social gathering MLAs. She had backed their resolution of not accepting the Governor’s invitation to go to Raj Bhavan and attend the oath ceremony there.
The MLAs, Sayantika Banerjee and Reyat Hossain Sarkar, had written to him in search of to take oath on the meeting.
On Could 2, a contractual lady worker of Raj Bhavan had alleged harassment by Mr Bose following which the Kolkata Police additionally began a probe. Below Article 361 of the Structure, no legal proceedings might be instituted towards a Governor throughout his or her time period in workplace.
Mr Bose has criticised Ms Banerjee’s remarks for creating “misguided and slanderous impressions”.
Immediately, Justice Krishna Rao stated that the Governor being a Constitutional Authority “can not meet the private assaults being made by the defendants towards him by taking the advantage of social media platform.
Throughout the July 15 listening to, the Trinamool Congress chief stood by her assertion and stated, by her lawyer, that her remarks had been a good touch upon problems with public curiosity and never defamatory.
Ms Banerjee’s lawyer submitted that she merely echoed the apprehensions of girls over sure alleged actions in Raj Bhavan.
The matter first got here up for listening to on July 3. Nonetheless, on that day, the courtroom directed that the media homes whose studies had been the premise of the defamation ought to be made events within the case. Then, July 4 was scheduled as the following date of listening to.
When the matter got here up for listening to once more on July 4, the Governor’s counsel instructed the courtroom that the listening to within the matter had not been enlisted within the information of the Calcutta Excessive Court docket.
Thereafter, the courtroom adjourned the listening to and glued July 10 as the following date of listening to. The matter was once more scheduled for a listening to on July 15.
Apart from the Chief Minister, Trinamool Congress chief Kunal Ghosh and MLAs Sayantika Banerjee from Baranagar and Reyat Hossain Sarkar from Bhagawangola have been named within the swimsuit.
