West Bengal Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari will move Calcutta High Court on Wednesday against the police raid conducted at his rented house at Kolaghat the previous day. The BJP leader said that he has protection from the Calcutta High Court which bars the police from taking action against him.

The raid by the Bengal Police at the Nandigram BJP MLA’s house comes four days prior to the sixth phase of Lok Sabha polls which will be held in Purba Medinipur district on May 25. A large posse of policemen searched the house for a local miscreant who was absconding in a case.

“I will move the Calcutta High Court against the state police for violating the court order. This was done at the instructions of Mamata Banerjee and her nephew,” added the BJP MLA.

Adhikari who was campaigning for Lok Sabha elections rushed to Kolaghat police station in the evening with his aides to protest against the raid.

“Who will be responsible if the police plant some weapons at my house in my absence? Had the police done a videography of the raid? The Election Commission must act against such futile action by the police. I want to know why the raid was conducted and at whose behest. It is clear Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is trying to victimise me,” said Adhikari.

The BJP leader has also taken up the matter with the Election Commission and sought its intervention.

A single bench of Calcutta High Court, in its orders passed in September 2021 and December 2022, had said no case shall be registered nor coercive steps taken against Adhikari, who had accused the state police of taking action to implicate him in false cases.

Later, a division bench had said that West Bengal Police can register an FIR against Adhikari, if they are satisfied that offence was made out. However, he got a favourable verdict from the Supreme Court in 2023 which set aside the division bench order of the High Court, implying that the single bench order will prevail.