Overview
- Raj Bhavan’s complaint led to an FIR at Hare Street police station against TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee under multiple BNS sections, including non-bailable Section 151, with penalties of up to seven years.
- The Governor’s office also filed a civil defamation suit in the Calcutta High Court over Banerjee’s claims that arms were distributed from the Governor’s House.
- Kalyan Banerjee filed counter-complaints at the same police station, invoking BNS sections such as 61, 152, 192, 196 and 353 and alleging provocation, conspiracy and threats to national integrity.
- A joint combing operation at Raj Bhavan with Kolkata Police, bomb disposal units and central forces was conducted and reported no arms or explosives on the premises.
- In a separate action, Governor C. V. Ananda Bose granted CBI-requested sanction to prosecute former WBBPE officials Manik Bhattacharya and Ratna Chakraborty Bagchi under the Prevention of Corruption Act in the primary school recruitment case.