Agartala : The Tripura High Court on Wednesday dismissed the Trinamool Congress's plea seeking a stay on the probe against party's national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu and four others. . Besides Banerjee and Basu, Trinamool's Rajya Sabha member Dola Sen, its chief spokesperson Kunal Ghosh, Subal Bhowmik and former Tripura minister Prakash Das were also booked by the police.
The Tripura Police had on August 10 registered a case against six Trinamool leaders for allegedly "obstructing official duties and misbehaving" at Khowai police station in western Tripura on August 8.
On Wednesday, Tripura Advocate General Siddhartha Shankar Dey said, "The court has directed the Khowai police station authority to continue the investigation, but the police will not file any final report without the court's permission." Advocate Siddharth Luthra of Supreme Court and former Advocate General of Mizoram Biswajit Deb appeared on behalf of the petitioner. According to the police, the Trinamool leaders were booked under sections 186 (obstructing public servants in the discharge of their public functions) and 36 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code.
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