Why Did Mostari Banu Move the Supreme Court Against SIR?

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Description: The petitioner from rural Bengal explains why she sought to appear at the Supreme Court herself.

The petitioner from rural Bengal explains why she sought to appear at the Supreme Court herself.

Vipul Kumar

The petitioner from rural Bengal explains why she sought to appear at the Supreme Court herself.

Mostari Banu, a 45-year-old homemaker from Murshidabad district in West Bengal, filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of the Special Intensive Revision in West Bengal. Mostari notes that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee – who dramatically appeared in the Supreme Court – only appeared in a case in which she was the first petitioner.

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