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Amid speculations of Suvendhu Adhikary meeting Solicitor General Tushar Mehta at his residence, the Law officer has stated that there was no question of meeting Adhikary as he was preoccupied with another meeting when Adhikary came to his residence cum chamber.

“Shri Suvendu Adhikari did come to my residence cum office yesterday at around 3:00 PM, unannounced,” said the Solicitor General in his statement.

He added that he was already in a pre-scheduled meeting at his chamber when Adhikary arrived.

“My staff requested him to sit in the waiting room of my office building and offered him a cup of tea. When my meeting was over and thereafter my PPS informed me about his arrival, I requested my PPS to convey Mr Adhikari my inability to meet him and apologise as he had to wait. Mr Adhikari thanked my PPS and left without insisting to meet me. 

“The question of my meeting with Mr Adhikari therefore did not arise,” he clarified.

After requesting removal of Calcutta High Court's Acting Chief Justice, TMC workers had sought the removal of Solicitor General Tushar Mehta. 

TMC workers, Derek O'Brien, Sukhendu Sekhar Ray and Mahua Moitra claimed that Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and BJPs' Suvendhu Adhikari had a meeting recently with the intention of influencing the outcome of matters in which Adhikari is an accused. The workers had written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking removal of the Learned SG.

Recently, Ashok Kumar Deb, Trinamool Congress MLA had written to Chief Justice NV Ramana, seeking removal of the current acting Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, Justice Rajesh Bindal.

While the letter was on the letterhead of the “Bar Council of West Bengal” and was undersigned by the TMC MLA, the body of the letter stated that the West Bengal Bar Association is "compelled" to write the instant letter under "urgent and dire circumstance".

The letter which was written to CJI NV Ramana rested on similar contentions that have been raised in the current letter seeking removal of the SG, i.e., basis alleged pictures of Justice Bindal visiting the Hon'ble governors home which were widely published, says the letter. "Videos on social media posts give the impression that Hon'ble Justice Bindra is a BJP man through and through".