17.04.2025 Sl No.1-5 Court No.8 (sg/gc)

WPA(P) 153 of 2025 Suvendu Adhikari & Anr.

Vs.

State of West Bengal & Ors.

with WPA(P) 154 of 2025 Sanjukta Samanta Vs.

Union of India & Ors.

With WPA(P) 155 of 2025 Priyanka Tibrewal Vs.

State of West Bengal & Ors.

with WPA(P) 156 of 2025 Amiya Kumar Sarkar Vs.

Union of India, Ministry of Home Affairs & Ors.

With WPA 8694 of 2025 Suvendu Adhikari & Anr.

Vs.

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Soumya Majumdar, Sr. Adv Mr. Billwadal Bhattacharyya, Sr. Adv Mr. Anish Kumar Mukherjee Mr. Suryaneel Das Mr. Tamoghna Pramanick Mr. Chiranjit Pal … For the Petitioners in WPA(P) 153 of 2025 Mr. Asok Kumar Chakraborti, Ld ASGI Mr. Siddhartha Lahiri Mr. Arijit Majumdar … For Union of India in WPA(P) 153 of 2025.

Mr. Arun Kumar Maiti(Mohanty)

Mr. Bhaskar Prosad Banerjee Mr. Debasis Tandon Mr. Debayan Sen … For NIA in WPA(P) 153 of 2025, WPA(P) 154 of 2025 &

WPA(P) 155 of 2025.

Mr. Kalyan Bandyopadhyay, Sr. Adv Mr. Sirsanya Bandyopadhyay, Sr. Standing Counsel Mr. Arka Kumar Nag, Spl State Counsel Mr. Debangshu Dinda Mr. Debopriyo Karan … For the State in all the matters Ms. Sanjukta Samanta Mr. Ronit Dutta … For the Petitioner in WPA(P) 154 of 2025 Mr. Asok Kumar Chakraborti, Ld ASGI Mr. Rajdeep Majumdar, Ld DSGI Ms. Amrita Pandey Mr. Ghanshyam Pandey Ms. Sneha Singh … For Union of India in WPA(P) 154 of 2025 Ms. Priyanka Tibrewal … For the Petitioner(in person)

in WPA(P) 155 of 2025 Mr. Asok Kumar Chakraborti, Ld ASGI Mr. Arijit Majumdar … For Union of India in WPA(P) 155 of 2025.

Mr. Krishnendu Sarkar Mr. Anjan Bhattacharya Mr. Anindu Sundar Das Mr. Shounak Ghosh Mr. Tarun Kumar Das Mr. Sujit Bhunia Mr. Debapriya Samanta Mr. Syed Ali Afzal Mr. Suva Gayen Mr. Pronay Basak Mr. Manga Ram Mandal Mr. Suman Halder Ms. Paramita Mondal Mr. Bipul Kumar Mondal Mr. Goutam Acharya Mr. Dilip Kumar Shyamal Ms. Anita Shaw Ms. Salma Sultana Ms. Moumita Dhar Mr. Pradip Paul Mr. Madhab Kumar Roy Chaudhuri Mr. Pratap Kumar Yadav … For the Petitioner in WPA(P) 156 of 2025.

Mr. Kumar Jyoti Tewari, Sr. Adv Ms. Rashmi Bothra … For Union of India in WPA(P) 156 of 2025.

1. In view of the Administrative Orders of the Hon’ble the Chief Justice dated 16th April, 2025 and 17th April, 2025, the writ petitions being WPA (P) 154/2025, WPA (P) 155 of 2025 and WPA (P) 156 of 2025 are taken up for consideration along with WPA (P) 153 of 2025 which was heard earlier and adjourned till this date in order to enable the Union of India and the State to file a report in terms of our order dated 12th April, 2025. The report of the State of West Bengal pursuant to the aforesaid order has been filed.

2. The learned Additional Solicitor General has filed the instruction received from the Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs dated 15th April, 2025. The State respondent has also furnished the details of the SIT constituted for the purpose of investigation into the alleged offences.

3. The principal arguments in respect of the newly added writ petitions are being advanced by Ms. Priyanka Tibrewal. She herself is the writ petitioner in WPA (P) 155 of 2025. The learned Counsel for the other writ petitioners have principally adopted her submission, save and except, the learned Counsel appearing in Amiya Kumar Sarkar (supra) has prayed for disbursement of the compensation amount to the victims of violence in terms of the ratio laid down by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in Destruction of Public & Private Properties, in Re: [AIR 2009 SC 2266].

4. Mr. Soumya Majumdar, learned Senior Counsel appearing with Mr. Billwadal Bhattacharyya, learned Senior Counsel has filed a supplementary affidavit and argued that having regard to the large scale of arson and violence and evil designed attempts made by external agencies to destabilize the sovereignty of the country with some organizations operating in the few districts of West Bengal, NIA investigation is necessary to unearth the conspiracy and to take steps against the culprits.

5. In the supplementary affidavit, reports from th