KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court on Monday directed the suspended Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir from Bharatpur in Murshidabad district to apply to the Union Home Ministry for Central security personnel.
The HC also directed Humayun, who has recently floated a new political platform, Janata Unnayan Party, in the State to bear the entire costs required for the Central security men for his personal security.
The suspended Trinamool Congress legislator has been receiving security threat calls regularly from unknown callers after he formed the new political organisation JUP and laid the foundation stone of a ‘Babri’ masjid at Beldanga in Murshidabad.
It erupted into uproar in West Bengal politics, particularly ahead of assembly polls scheduled on April-May in the State.
Humayun also faced agitating people’s wrath at Beldanga on Friday when the agitators blocked the railway track and national highway (NH) 12 at Beldanga to protest against the alleged murder of Alauddin Sheikh, a local migrant worker in Jharkhand last week.
He had visited the spot to take stock of the situation.
A group of people allegedly belonging to the ruling party in the State had also staged an agitation when the suspended rebel MLA visited the Bigrade Parade ground in Kolkata, days before the Beldanga violence.
Fearing a threat to his life, he moved the HC seeking Central security personnel for him instead of State policemen engaged by the Mamata Banerjee-led home department.
In the HC, he appealed for Central security like the Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) as he had no confidence in the State's police security arrangements for him.
He also urged the court requesting it to provide either Z or Z plus category security arrangement.
Justice Suvra Ghosh asked Humayun to appeal to the Union Home Ministry within two weeks so that he gets Central forces for his personal security coverage.
