Bengal notice to Mahua Moitra on Nadia circuit house stay ‘retaliatory’, says SC
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The Supreme Court on Friday described a letter from the Nadia district magistrate asking Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra and other legislators from the district to give three to four days’ notice for circuit house accommodation as “seemingly retaliatory”, Live Law reported.
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The court directed Moitra to inform the district administration a day before her visit and said her request for accommodation should be processed in accordance with protocol.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant was hearing Moitra’s petition alleging that the Nadia district administration had directed her to vacate the circuit house in Krishnanagar late at night on August 14, despite her having been allotted a room at the state government-owned property.
Moitra is the Lok Sabha MP from Krishnanagar.
She had said on social media that she arrived at the circuit house around 6.30 pm and was given the room she usually stayed in. However, at 9.47 pm, she was asked to vacate it while a large crowd outside the gates shouted “Jai Shri Ram” slogans, she alleged.
She alleged that, as an MP, she was entitled to stay at the circuit house but was pressured by district authorities to leave in the middle of the night in an attempt to harass her.
Following the incident, she wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking his...