Rights Panel Probing Post-Poll Violence Biased, Bengal Tells Court

Criticising Mamata Banerjee government, the panel's report says the situation in the state is manifestation of "law of ruler instead of rule of law"

The Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal has alleged in an affidavit filed before the Calcutta High Court that the National Human Rights Council (NHRC) committee which probed incidents of post-poll violence in the state "was fraught with bias against the ruling dispensation". The affidavit, submitted to the court on Monday, also claimed that members of the panel share close ties with BJP leaders. Criticising the Mamata Banerjee government, the NHRC panel, in its report placed before the high court recently, has underscored that "the situation in the state is a manifestation of law of ruler instead of rule of law". It recommended a CBI probe into "grievous offences like murder and rape".