Overview
- Kolkata Police registered a non-bailable FIR against MP Kalyan Banerjee on a Raj Bhavan complaint under multiple BNS sections, with offences carrying maximum penalties of up to seven years.
- The Governor’s office also moved the Calcutta High Court with a civil defamation suit over Banerjee’s allegation that arms were being distributed from the Governor’s House.
- Governor C. V. Ananda Bose personally led a high-visibility combing operation at Raj Bhavan with Kolkata Police, BDDS, CRPF and sniffer dogs, and no arms or explosives were found.
- In a separate action, the Governor granted CBI-requested sanction to prosecute former WBBPE officials Manik Bhattacharya and Ratna Chakraborty Bagchi in the primary school recruitment case.
- Banerjee lodged a counter-complaint at Hare Street Police Station accusing the Governor under various BNS provisions, escalating the legal standoff.