Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court’s vacation bench on Tuesday declined to hear a plea filed by Sushmita Roy, wife of Sumit Roy, personal assistant to Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee, alleging custodial harassment and police torture of her husband. The matter will be taken up by a regular bench after the court reopens.Sushmita had sought urgent judicial intervention, pleading for a CBI probe into the recovery of cash from a party office in Sarisha, Diamond Harbour, or the constitution of an independent special investigation team (SIT) headed by a retired judge. She had also sought the removal of the investigating police officers from the case.Appearing for the state, advocate general Surajit Nath Mitra submitted that Roy “is already in custody and investigation is going on.”
