Calcutta High Court on Wednesday asked the state to
clarify if a no-confidence motion against a municipality chairperson can be
moved in quick succession. The Kandi municipality board is locked at nine
councilors for Trinamool and nine for Congress and CPI(M) combined. The changed
law also makes it necessary that the fresh motion has to be brought by a
majority of the councilors.
State counsel Joydeep Kar and additional
solicitor-general Laxmi Gupta assured the court they would reply by Thursday.
Trinamool has amended The West Bengal Municipal Act, 1993, giving the
municipality chairperson a six-month breather till a motion of no-confidence
can be moved after they assume office.
Justice Dipankar Dutta directed that the investigating officer in the
alleged abduction of Debajyoti Roy be present in court tomorrow along with the
case diary. The State counsel earlier told the court that three FIRs, one by
the family members, another by the staff members of the school where Roy taught
and yet another by the headmaster of the school, had been filed before the
Kandi police station.
Roy, an independent councilor at Kandi, was said to have played a
pivotal role for a trust vote for the position of chairman of the municipal
body of Kandi, after the Left and Trinamool Congress were evenly tied at nine members
each. Roy was rescued from abductors by the police at a road check-point from a
car in the early hours of Sunday. The Independent councilor was allegedly
kidnapped by Trinamool activists on February 16.
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