Lawyers seek suo motu contempt proceedings against Mamata

Kolkata: A section of lawyers today moved the Calcutta High Court seeking suo motu contempt proceedings against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her comments against the judiciary on August 14.

A division bench, comprising Chief Justice J N Patel and Justice Joymalyo Bagchi, refused to start suo motu proceedings against Banerjee after the matter was mentioned before it.

The division bench instead asked the lawyers to move a petition if they wanted to.The bench also observed that they were her personal comments and that the court was not perturbed by such comments.

A section of lawyers also moved the court of Justice K J Sengupta who said that he would hear the matter at 2 PM.Banerjee had said during a function in the state Assembly that there were instances when court judgements had been delivered for money.