New Delhi, April 2 -- Terming West Bengal as the "most polarised State", the Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to deploy central forces for the protection of judicial officers engaged in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, after seven judicial officers including three women judges were gheraoed for several hours in Malda district on Wednesday evening by a mob protesting against the deletion of their names from the electoral rolls.
Pulling up the West Bengal government and the district authorities, including the district magistrate and the superintendent of police, for not responding to the situation promptly and rescuing the judicial officers, the top court termed the incident at...