Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Monday directed the Kolkata police commissioner to provide necessary protection to Trinamool MLA Kunal Ghosh and ensure he is not subjected to “further mob attack” by the time the division bench takes up the case for hearing.Ghosh’s counsel submitted before Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya on the attack on the MLA and the damage to his car on Sept 27. Ghosh claimed he used to have Y-category security but after the level was reduced, he had faced multiple attacks—on June 15, Sept 25 and Sept 27.When the Additional Advocate General (AAG) Bilwadal Bhattacharyya submitted that Ghosh had protection by SB, Justice Bhattacharyya said, “In spite of this, how did the incident take place on Sept 26 and 27?” But no additional security was provided to Ghosh by the single judge, who held that the matter would be next heard by the division bench of Chief Justice Ravindra Vithalrao Ghuge and Justice Om Narayan Rai, who directed the registry to compile all egg-pelting matters.
