Supreme Court has stayed FIRs against West Bengal BJP leader Kabir Shankar Bose Into Legal World Thu, Jan 14, 2021, at ,03:26 PM The Supreme Court has stayed proceedings in two criminal cases lodged against West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Kabir Shankar Bose after the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) told the top court in a sealed cover report that Bose, a CISF protectee, was not present at the incident spot on December 6 last year, where he had allegedly beaten and molested workers of the Trinamool Congress. A Bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Dinesh Maheshwari, and Hrishikesh Roy also issued notice to the State of West Bengal and the West Bengal Police after perusing a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) report filed in the matter. Kabir Bose had filed a plea in the Supreme Court stating that scores of FIRs were being filed against him in Bengal out of political vengeance and he was being taken illegally into custody and kept under extreme torturous conditions. The plea stated that "there is wreaking of political vengeance and specific targeting of the Petitioner by the State Government, ruling TMC and its MP Kalyan Bannerji, due to the political and personal rivalry and is praying that this Court safeguards the Petitioner from the threats to his life and liberty." Kabir Bose and five other BJP leaders had moved Supreme Court alleging a witch-hunt by the West Bengal Police at the behest of the ruling party and urged the Top Court to transfer all cases to an independent investigating agency. Kabir Bose has claimed that he was deliberately and intentionally kept in a COVID-19 isolation ward along for around four hours in "utter violation of his right to life guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution of India." The Senior Advocate Mahesh Jethmalani and advocates Ravi Sharma and Sameer Kumar appeared for the BJP leader.