Kolkata, June 4 (IANS). An FIR has been registered against former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for making inflammatory statements regarding the Home Ministry.
On Thursday, police said that this case has been registered at Siliguri Cyber Crime Police Station on the basis of a complaint by a lawyer.
The complaint pertains to Mamata Banerjee’s comments during a protest meeting at Rani Rashmoni Road in Kolkata on June 2, in which she referred to the killing of Bangladeshi national Usman Hadi and made statements implicating the Union Home Ministry and Home Minister Amit Shah.
Lawyer Rinki Sen Chatterjee has filed a complaint against Mamta. He alleged that Osman Hadi was murdered in Bangladesh last December. Hadi’s killers had crossed the Meghalaya border into West Bengal in January and the state’s Special Task Force (STF) had arrested both of them.
Mamata Banerjee raised the issue while addressing a gathering on June 2 and indicated that even if the murder took place in another country, she knew who was involved. He blamed the Home Ministry.
Rinki Sen said that when she was the Chief Minister, she could have taken up the matter directly with the Home Ministry. Sen said that but now she is claiming that a murder in Bangladesh was a planned murder carried out on the orders of the Home Ministry. By making such allegations, she is provoking tension between India and Bangladesh and tarnishing the country’s image at the global level. His comments have endangered the safety of Hindus in Bangladesh.
Sen further said that Mamata Banerjee had taken an oath to maintain the secrecy of the country while holding the post of CM, but after leaving the post, she instigated fundamentalist elements.
Mamata Banerjee said during a rally on June 2 that the STF arrested an accused from Bangladesh, triggering a major protest there. I am not talking about other countries, but the issue is that such people enter Bengal through Meghalaya. After reaching here, STF arrests them. The Home Minister himself has said this. I had not said this for a long time, but today I am saying this.
–IANS
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