The Tripura High Court on Wednesday rejected a petition filed by the Trinamool Congress seeking a stay order on the probe against the party's national General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu and four others, and directed the police to continue with their probe against the Trinamool leaders for allegedly obstructing the police from performing their duties, court officials said.
However, Trinamool leader Subal Bhowmik, who had filed the petition, claimed that the high court's order was like a "victory for them" as the court has asked the police not to add any other sections to the case or submit their report without the permission of the court.
Tripura police had on August 10 registered a suo-moto case against six Trinamool leaders for allegedly "obstructing official duties and misbehaving" with the force at the Khowai police station in western Tripura on August 8.
Besides Banerjee and Basu, Trinamool's Rajya Sabha Member Dola Sen, its chief spokesman Kunal Ghosh, Subal Bhowmik and ex-Tripura minister Prakash Das were also booked by the police.