When Bengal CID was attacked in Yogi’s state
Calcutta High Court justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Friday asked if the CRPF jawans accompanying the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials during the raid on the residences of Sandeshkhali Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Sheikh Shahjahan were carrying guns or not to shoot down the miscreants who orchestrated the attack on the Central agency’s officers while reaching the location.
While no act of violence can be condoned, the judiciary and major parts of the media in the state of Bengal remained silent when a team of officers from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) were attacked in a similar fashion when they went to arrest an accused in Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh.
The CID team had gone to arrest Yogesh Varshney, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth wing of BJP, from Aligarh’s Gandhinagar who had kept a bounty of Rs 11 lakh on the head of Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress Chairperson Mamata Banerjee’s head.
The BJP leader had made the statement in 2017. When the CID reached the spot on September 18, 2021, after conducting an extensive investigation, a mob of BJP supporters attacked the cops and vandalised their vehicles.
All this happened in front of UP Police officers, yet no action was taken and there wasn’t any uproar from the likes of Justice Gangopadhyay on the incident.
