The Calcutta High Court on Friday lifted the blanket protection granted to Bharatiya Janata Party leader Suvendu Adhikari from the registration of first information reports against him without court permission, The Hindu reported.

Justice Joy Sengupta said that such protection , which was granted to the leader of the Opposition in the Assembly by the court in 2022 as an interim order, cannot remain in force indefinitely and had to end, The Indian Express reported.

In 2022, Adhikari had moved the court seeking the quashing of FIRs registered against him by the West Bengal Police, claiming that the cases were “politically motivated” and filed after he quit the ruling Trinamool Congress to join the BJP.

Adhikari had quit the Trinamool Congress ahead of the 2021 state polls.

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