TMC leader moves HC, seeks protection days after Bengal CM's 'Pushpa' remark

NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) person Jahangir Khan connected Monday moved the Calcutta precocious tribunal seeking extortion from immoderate coercive enactment by the West Bengal Police, alleging that transgression cases were being repeatedly filed against him.Khan’s plea came 2 days aft main curate Suvendu Adhikari warned that helium would personally grip the lawsuit of “Pushpa,” a notation to Khan.Also Read | 'Pushpa present my responsibility': West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari warns TMC strongman Jahangir Khan up of Falta repollingMoving the tribunal of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya and seeking an urgent hearing, Khan’s counsel Kishore Dutta prayed for disclosure of each FIRs registered against his client, on with extortion from coercive action.

Justice Bhattacharyya said helium would perceive the substance aboriginal successful the day.Dutta, a erstwhile Advocate General of West Bengal, submitted earlier the tribunal that Khan is simply a campaigner from the Falta Assembly constituency, wherever a repoll is scheduled for Thursday, with votes to beryllium counted connected Sunday.Polling successful Falta, successful South 24 Parganas district, was countermanded pursuing allegations of large-scale irregularities connected April 29, the time of the 2nd and last signifier of polling successful the state.Addressing BJP workers successful Falta connected May 16, Adhikari, a erstwhile Trinamool person nether whom the BJP won West Bengal for the archetypal time, ousting the TMC aft the Mamata Banerjee-led party’s 15-year rule, warned Khan without naming him.

In the run-up to the assembly elections, Khan, the Trinamool strongman, had referred to himself arsenic “Pushpa” — the smuggler-turned-strongman quality played by Allu Arjun successful the 2 "Pushpa" films.The remark came successful effect to Uttar Pradesh-cadre IPS serviceman Ajay Pal Sharma, appointed by the Election Commission arsenic a constabulary perceiver successful West Bengal, being likened to the “Singham” quality portrayed by Ajay Devgn successful the "Singham" movie franchise.In a viral video, Sharma was seen informing Khan’s family, prompting the TMC candidate’s response.(With PTI inputs)