New Delhi, Feb 20 (UNI) The Supreme Court on Friday ordered Calcutta High Court to depute current and former judicial officers to help with the SIR process in the state.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and N V Anjaria also sought a status report on alleged incidents of violence in the state.
The court said there is an unfortunate ”blame game of allegations and counter allegations, which shows a trust deficit between two constitutional functionaries – that is, the state government and the Election Commission of India”.
The court acknowledged that this direction may impact the hearing of normal court cases since judges’ time will be taken up for the SIR exercise. Thus, the top court directed that the Calcutta High Court Chief Justice, along with a committee of judges, the Registrar General, and the principal district judges, may take a call to shift interim relief cases to an alternate court for a week or 10 days.
After the ECI said that it can publish the final list after February 28, but the SIR process can still go on, the Court said that if the process is completed, then the list can be published after February 28, and such a list shall not be taken as the final one, and then a supplementary list shall be published.
