Kolkata, July 10 -- The Calcutta High Court has raised serious concerns over the alleged detention of migrant workers from West Bengal in Odisha and directed chief secretary Manoj Pant to promptly obtain a response from the Odisha government.
On Thursday, a division bench of the Calcutta High Court, comprising Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Ritabrata Kumar Mitra, raised several critical questions: Why have the Bengali migrant workers been detained? On what basis? Has any FIR been filed? What actions have been taken following their detention? And where are the workers currently being held?
The bench instructed chief secretary Manoj Pant to convey these questions to his Odisha counterpart. The court said it would determine its ne...