KOLKATA: A fresh petition has been filed at a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Monday over the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s order on Sunday transferring 83 Block Development Officers (BDOs), who are also Returning Officers, and 184 Inspector-rank police officers officiating as officers-incharge or Inspectors-incharge of different police stations in West Bengal.
On behalf of the petitioner, his counsel Kalyan Banerjee, a four-time Trinamool Congress MP and senior advocate, had also pleaded for a fast-track basis hearing in the matter.
The Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court, comprising Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen, has admitted the petition, and the matter is likely to come up for hearing this week.
This is the second petition filed at the Calcutta High Court in the matter of transfers, replacement, and deputation of bureaucrats and police officers from West Bengal to other states as per the order of the ECI.
The first PIL was in relation to the transfers of top and mid-level bureaucrats and police officers from the state. The hearing on that PIL was completed last week, and the order had been kept on reserve.