MALDA, Dec. 30: A woman, Mrs Bhanu Das, has sought assistance from the state legal services after she allegedly was not able to deposit Rs 2,000 fine against a crime committed by her husband in the Malda court for the past three months.
On 27 March 2003, former chief judicial magistrate Mr Dibakar Das, Malda court, had judged Ananda Das guilty under section 326 IPC for assaulting people and inciting tension in a village in Malda. The CJM had sentenced Das to seven years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 2,000, failing which an additional year's RI.
In her letter to the chairman of the state legal services, Mr Pinaki Chandra Ghosh on 22 December 2008, Mrs Bhanu Das alleged: “I have been trying to deposit the fine amount in Malda court for the past three months but the court officials have so far refused to receive the amount on one ground or the other.
I am sending a copy of the judgment related to my husband's case passed by the former CJM, Malda in 2003 to you for necessary arrangement so that I can deposit the amount on time,” she wrote in the letter.
After discussing the matter with Malda court officials, Mr Gajen Saha, lawyer of Ananda Das submitted a prayer to the chief judicial magistrate court a month ago. Failing to deposit the fine amount, Mrs Das sought help from the Malda Rama Krishna Mission to deposit the fine amount and finally appealed to the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court and chairman of the state legal services. The secretary of the Malda RKM, Swami Divyananda, has already spoken to Mr Pinaki Chandra Ghosh about the matter. According to the Swami, Mr Ghosh has asked the woman to appeal to the state legal service with a copy of the judgment made by the former CJM. “Mr Pinaki Chandra Ghosh has also spoken to the district judge of the Malda court about the matter,” Swami Divyananada, said.
Neither the district judge nor the chief judicial magistrate, Malda court were available for comment because of winter vacation in the court till 2 January. n SNS
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