Justice Rajasekhar Mantha was dealing with a case filed by Bishnu Chowdhury, who claimed that he was coerced, intimidated, and threatened to join two others, Mahesh Kumar Chowdhury and Raju Gupta, in committing a number of crimes in the State.
He admitted before the Court that he may have also participated to some extent in these crimes.
According to the petitioner, the two persons named have committed crimes such as the preparation of fake domicile certificates to enable persons to seek recruitment in the Indian Army, as well as services under the State of West Bengal in the Short Service Commission of the army and other central services.
The Court further recorded the following allegations levelled by the petitioner:
“They are also involved in committing murders and other offences on being hired by people. They also aided preparation of fake documents for recruitment of foreign nationals, particularly, persons from foreign spy agencies like ISI into the Indian Army.”
Source: Barandbench
