Calcutta HC To Hear Defamation Case Against Mamata Banerjee By West Bengal Guv C V Ananda Bose

On June 27, while attending an administrative meeting in the state secretariat, Banerjee said that women have informed her that they are afraid to visit Raj Bhavan

On June 28, the West Bengal governor filed a defamation suit against Mamata Banerjee (Image: PTI)

The Calcutta High Court will hear today a defamation suit filed by West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Bose approached the high court against the West Bengal supremo after she claimed that women told her that they were afraid to visit the Raj Bhavan.

A bench of Justice Krishna Rao will hear the defamation suit filed by the West Bengal Governor.

On June 27, while attending a press conference in the state secretariat, Banerjee said that women have informed her that they are afraid to visit Raj Bhavan due to recent incidents reported there.

Banerjee was talking on the ongoing row over two newly elected TMC MLAs, Sayantika Banerjee and Rayat Hossain Sarkar, demanding that they be administered oath in the West Bengal Assembly rather than in Raj Bhavan.

The TMC supremo said, “Why should they go to Raj Bhavan?" She asked why the Governor will not come to the state Assembly.

"They have complained to me that women are afraid to go to Raj Bhavan where such activities are going on,” Banerjee said while commenting on the molestation allegations against C V Ananda Bose.

On June 28, the West Bengal governor filed a defamation suit against Banerjee and said such erroneous and slanderous statements were not expected of public representatives.

It may be recalled that in May, a woman who was a contractual employee of Raj Bhavan in West Bengal had alleged that the Governor molestated her. Following this allegation, the Kolkata Police started a probe into the same.

The West Bengal Governor on the other hand called these narratives "engineered" to deter him from fighting against corruption and violence in Bengal.