The Calcutta High Court on Friday turned down a plea for an urgent hearing filed by Sumit Roy, personal assistant to Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament Abhishek Banerjee, concerning four police complaints registered against him in West Bengal.
Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya directed that the application be listed following standard courtroom procedure according to its assigned serial number. The judge noted that numerous comparable cases were already scheduled for consideration and determined there was no justification to advance Roy’s petition on the cause list.
Roy’s advocate, Trideep Pais, had urged the bench to fix an expedited hearing for August 10. The petition challenges four First Information Reports (FIRs) filed across various police stations in the state and asks the court to quash the proceedings while granting interim protection against coercive action by law enforcement.
Counsel clarified to the bench that these four complaints are entirely separate from two other criminal matters in which Roy had previously secured judicial protection from police action.
Background On Other Judicial Proceedings
The High Court order comes shortly after the Supreme Court on Thursday granted Roy relief by staying his arrest in an alleged government land fraud case. That investigation, conducted by the Salboni Police in Paschim Medinipur district, involves allegations of land grabbing. Roy had approached the top court after the Calcutta High Court rejected his anticipatory bail application in the matter, with the Supreme Court directing him to participate fully in the ongoing police investigation.
In another distinct case involving an alleged cash-for-jobs scheme, Roy was previously granted anticipatory bail by the Calcutta High Court.
