WB Panchayat polls: SC to hear plea against deployment of central forces
The Supreme Court agreed to hear on Tuesday a plea challenging an order of the Calcutta High Court directing the State Election Commission (SEC) to requisition and deploy central forces across West Bengal for the panchayat elections.
The matter was mentioned on Monday before a vacation bench of Justices Surya Kant and M M Sundresh by senior advocate Meenakshi Arora who sought an urgent hearing.
Arora, who was appearing for the SEC, told the appeal against the order was filed on Friday last but was not taken up.
The high court on June 15 had directed the SEC to requisition and deploy central forces across West Bengal for the panchayat elections within 48 hours.
The court had noted that no appreciable steps have been taken ever since an order was passed by it on June 13 to deploy central forces in sensitive areas for the poll process.
The high court had directed the SEC to requisition the deployment of central forces for all the districts in the state which were rocked by violence o