The Bengal Police on Tuesday slapped snooping charges on State Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari a day after he warned the East Midnapore Superintendent of Police K Amarnath against “playing partisan games.”
The SP said that cases under section 295 A of the IPC and Section 5 of the Official Secrets Act had been lodged against Adhikari for threatening Government servants and possessing information that he should not have possessed. Besides the BJP leader has also been charged under Disaster Management Act.
Adhikari had on Monday threatened the SP with transfer to Baramula or Anantnag in Kashmir if he continued to receive calls from TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s office and act accordingly.
“The TMC is in power in Bengal and we are in power in Delhi … like they snoop into our phone calls we also have information about what calls come from where to your office and how you (SP) act accordingly,” Adhikari told in the meeting saying he would file a PIL and seek CBI investigation into the acts of the SP and the entire police brass.
“We have lodged suo motu complaints against Adhikari under Disaster management Act, IPC and Official Secrets Act for possessing information that he should not have possessed,” the SP said.
The controversy started after a three-year-old case of an alleged unnatural death of a former Adhikari security officer was revived recently with the victim’s family alleging that he did not commit suicide.
The CID probing the case questioned Adhikaris thrice --- in the past one week --- at their house in Contai in East Midnapore.