Key Takeaways
- The Supreme Court is set to hear a plea demanding President’s Rule in West Bengal amid ongoing communal unrest.
- The plea seeks the urgent deployment of paramilitary forces in the state to maintain security and constitutional compliance.
- The Waqf Amendment Act has been linked to the ongoing violence in West Bengal, prompting the plea for President’s Rule.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is set to hear today a plea demanding the imposition of President’s Rule and urgent deployment of paramilitary forces in West Bengal, citing ongoing communal and political violence, allegedly linked to the Waqf (Amendment) Act in Murshidabad district.
The matter was initially mentioned for urgent listing before a Bench of Justice B.R. Gavai and Justice Augustine George Masih on April 21. They scheduled the hearing for today.
Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, representing petitioner Ranjana Agnihotri, sought the Court’s permission to submit additional documents detailing the continuing violence in the state. He also urged for immediate invocation of Article 355 of the Constitution to ensure security and constitutional compliance.
“There is a need for immediate deployment of paramilitary forces. This matter is listed for tomorrow. I have filed an additional application seeking the invocation of Article 355,” Jain submitted during the mentioning.
The fresh intervention application was filed by Ranjana Agnihotri through Advocate-on-Record (AoR) Vishnu Shankar Jain, along with AoRs Arvind Kumar Sharma, Kunal Mimani, Prateek Kumar, Parth Yadav, and Omprakash Ajitsingh Parihar.
The plea has been clubbed with a previously filed writ petition by petitioner Shashank Shekhar Jha, which seeks a court-monitored Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the violence in the state.
