Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, together with occasion MPs Kalyan Banerjee, Babul Supriyo and Dola Sen, through the basis day of the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad, in Kolkata, West Bengal, on August 28, 2026.
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The Kolkata Police has registered an FIR in opposition to former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, amongst others, for “violating” a Calcutta Excessive Courtroom order throughout a basis day of the occasion’s scholar wing, Trinamool Congress Chhattra Parishad (TMCP), programme held on Cathedral Street in Kolkata.
In accordance with the police, the case was registered on August 28, 2026, underneath Sections 61(2), 223, 125(a), 132 and 285 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). The case was registered on the premise of a written criticism submitted by Sub-Inspector Apu Baidya of Hastings Police Station after analyzing the situations imposed by the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom for holding the assembly at Cathedral Street on Friday.
An announcement by Kolkata Police accused the Trinamool Congress chairperson of coming into right into a legal conspiracy by scary her supporters through the programme, ensuing within the crowd pushing apart the barricades, jostling with police personnel “deployed for sustaining regulation and order, making a chaotic scenario and obstructing the vehicular motion of 1 flank of Cathedral Street”.
The Calcutta Excessive Courtroom has directed that the rally be held from 12 p.m. to three p.m., however the programme went past the scheduled time. In the course of the gathering, the Trinamool Congress chairperson was heard repeatedly saying that she would end the occasion by 3 p.m. The rally, nevertheless, went past 3 p.m., as the previous Chief Minister couldn’t end her speech in time.
Trinamool Congress spokesperson and Beleghata MLA Kunal Ghosh mentioned that the FIR was politically motivated. “We tried to complete the rally in time. But when extra folks flip up, it’s the accountability of the police to take care of the scenario,” he mentioned.
The Kolkata Police had filed an identical FIR in opposition to the Trinamool Congress chairperson for allegedly violating Calcutta Excessive Courtroom’s orders through the occasion’s Shahid Dibas rally on the identical venue on July 21.
Printed – August 29, 2026 03:18 pm IST
