Susmita Saha Dutta vs Union of India

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2021 Supreme(Cal) 268

RAJESH BINDAL, I. P. MUKERJI, HARISH TANDON, SOUMEN SEN, SUBRATA TALUKDAR
Susmita Saha Dutta – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent

Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant :Mr. Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharjee, Senior Advocate with M/s. Uday Sankar Chattopadhyay, Debapriya Samanta Pronoy Basak and Santanu Maji, Ms. Priyanka Tibrewal, Mr. Mahesh Jethmalani, Senior Advocate with Mr. Dhiraj Kumar Trivedi, Mr. Ravi Sharma, Mr. Debu Choudhury, Mr. Shoumendu Mukherjee, Mr. Praneet Pranav, Mr. Shaurya R. Rai, Mr. Shailendra Kumar Mishra, Ms. Mugdha Pandey, Ms. Jayeeta Dhar, Mr. Raja Satyajit Banerjee, Mr. Abhishek Sarkar, Mr. Tanmoy Majumder, Mr. Saket Sharma, Ms. Pinky Anand, Mr. Loknath Chatterjee, Mr. Sukanta Ghosh, Ms. Saudamini Sharma and Ms. Kirti Dua, Ms. Souri Ghoshal and Mr. Prasayan Mukherjee, Mr. J. Sai Deepak and Mr. Rishav Kumar Singh, Mr. Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharjee, Senior Advocate with Mr. Samim Ahmed, Mr. Arka Maiti and Ms. Saloni Bhattacharya, Mr. Rabi Sankar Chattopadhyay, Mr. Uday Sankar Chattopadhyay, Mr. Sayan Chattopadhyay, Mr. Soumen Banerjee, Mr. Santanu Maji, Ms. Payel Shome and Ms. Smriti Das, Advocates
For the Respondent:Mr. Y.J. Dastoor, Mr. Phiroze Edulji, Mr. Bhaskar Prosad Banerjee, Mr. Arijit Majumdar and Ms. Amrita Pandey, Mr. Kishore Datta, Advocate General with M/s. Sayan Sinha and Debashish Gosh, Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Mr. S.N. Mookherjee, Mr. Sanjay Basu, Mr. Samik Kanti Chakraborty, Mr. Amit Bhandari, Mr. Soumen Mohanty, Ms. Ranjabati Ray and Ms. Shrivalli Kajaria, Mr. Kapil Sibal, Senior Advocate with Mr. Sanjay Basu, Mr. Apoorv Khator, Mr. Adit S. Pujara, Mr. Soumen Mohanty, Ms. Shrivalli Kajaria and Ms. Ranjabati Ray, Mr. Subir Sanyal and Ms. Sumouli Sarkar, M/s Sidhant Kumar, Manyaa Chandok, Suvrodal Choudhury and Dipayan Chaudhury, Mr. Saptangsu Basu, Senior Advocate with Mr. Soumava Mukherjee, Advocate

ORDER :

Sr. Nos.	Particulars	Page No.
1.	Introduction	5
2.	Schedule of State Assembly Elections, 2021	6
3.	Facts	6
4.	Arguments of the petitioners	13
5.	Arguments of the respondents	22
6.	Rejoinder	26
7.	DISCUSSION Brief note of Court Proceedings Report of the Committee Exception filed by the State Suo-Moto FIRs Other issues in the Exceptions filed by the State Regarding procedure adopted by the Committee Regarding Bias Duration of Post-poll violence Election Commission’s responsibility of law and order	27 44 53 54 61 63 64 65 66
	Case law	67
	Analysis	77
	Court Order	80
	Concurring view by I.P. Mukerji, J.	83
	Concurring view by Harish Tandon, J.	89
	Concurring view by Soumen Sen, J.	94
	Concurring by Subrata Talukdar, J.	124

RAJESH BINDAL, CHIEF JUSTICE (ACTING)

1. The extraordinary jurisdiction of this Court has been invoked by the residents of the State seeking to preserve the constitutional values and the

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2021 Supreme(Cal) 268

RAJESH BINDAL, I. P. MUKERJI, HARISH TANDON, SOUMEN SEN, SUBRATA TALUKDARSusmita Saha Dutta – AppellantVersusUnion of India – Respondent

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RAJESH BINDAL, I. P. MUKERJI, HARISH TANDON, SOUMEN SEN, SUBRATA TALUKDAR
Susmita Saha Dutta – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent