India, Oct. 25 -- Bengal Opposition Leader Suvendu Adhikari got partial relief from Calcutta High Court after a single bench on Friday quashed 15 FIRs lodged against him by the Trinamool Congress Government but at the same time withdrew a protective judicial shield earlier provided to him against arbitrary prosecution.

Removing the protective shield against any kind of prosecution by the State police the Bench of Justice Joy Sengupta ordered a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to be formed comprising officials from State police and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to investigate into four cases. The Court however, dropped charges in 15 other cases that were lodged against him by the State police, advocate Billodal Bhattacharya wh...