Kolkata, Jun 30 Justice Tirthankar Ghosh of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday released for reassignment a petition by TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee challenging a notice by the police for recording his voice sample in a case over his alleged intimidatory speech during the West Bengal assembly poll campaign.
The court did not pass any order on Banerjee's prayer for an interim order staying the police notice.
The petition will be placed before the Chief Justice for reassignment to a different bench of the high court.
Justice Ghosh released the petition from his court for reassignment as a similar matter is pending before another bench of the high court.
The main matter relating to the alleged intimidatory speech is being heard before the bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya.
The MP from Diamond Harbour had prayed for quashing the FIR.
Justice Bhattacharyya had on May 21 granted Banerjee protection from coercive action till July 31 in an FIR over his comments made at a public meeting in April during election campaigning.
The court had then directed Banerjee, the TMC's national general secretary, to cooperate with the probe and not travel abroad without the leave of the court.
