Kolkata: Calcutta High Court has formed a three-member committee for rehabilitation of all post-poll violence victims, comprising one repres...
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court has formed a three-member committee for rehabilitation of all post-poll violence victims, comprising one representative each from the State Human Rights Commission and the National Human Rights Commission each and the Member Secretary from State Legal Services Authority. The state had witnessed large-scale violence after the assembly polls.
A five-member bench, comprising Acting Chief Justice Rajesh
Bindal, Justices IP Mukerji, Harish Tandon, Soumen
Sen and Subrata Talukdar, heard a petition filed by Advocate Priyanka
Tibrewal who alleged that more than 200 persons got displaced due to the
post-poll violence and were unable to return to their homes.
The Court observed that the committee will hear the victims of poll
violence and consider the matter individually. Many people, supporting the
opposition party, were tortured, forced to flee from their homes, their houses were vandalized
and burnt down in several districts in the state. "The people have a right
to go back to their houses and live there peacefully," the bench stated.
The next hearing is on June 4.
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