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BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari has moved the Supreme Court of India against an order of the Calcutta High Court, which granted permission to the West Bengal police to register an FIR against him, in a complaint made for provocative speeches made during panchayat election and promoting enmity between different groups.

The matter was mentioned today before a bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Sudhanshu Dhulia for urgent listing by Advocate Bansuri Swaraj.

Court said that it would be listed on August 4.

When Swaraj told the bench that Adhikari was in a precarious situation, Justice Kaul assured him that the plea will be listed.

Court refused to list the matter on July 31 as it was already listed for August 4.

Last week, a division bench of the Calcutta high court dealt with a plea filed against Adhikari for committing an offence under section 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups) of the Indian Penal Code and said that the petition should be treated as a complaint to the police authority and the state police shall exercise powers in accordance with the law and carefully examine whether the acts narrated in it disclose any offence under section 153-A.

In its order, the division bench of the high court had said, "The first information reports so registered, if any, along with his views and result of investigation, if any, shall be embodied in a report to be prepared by the Director General of Police and to be furnished before this court on the returnable date of this application." 

 

It is Adhikari's case that since he joined BJP, he has faced a barrage of criminal cases based on false complaints.

Adhikari has also sought an ex-parte ad-interim stay of the impugned order.