Kolkata: The firebrand Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee won round one in her battle with the West Bengal adminstration when Kolkata Police told the court that she can not be arrested as she is always on the move.
"They are not in a position to make the arrest as she is always on the move due to her political affairs," assistant public prosecutor Bikash Ranjan De said.
But the court did not subscribe to views of the police and want her to be produced before the bench by February 27.
There is a non bailable warrant against Mamata in a 1994 case charging her with inciting violence that resulted in firing by the police killing two people.
The incident took place when Mamata was still in the Congress and was addressing a rally of Youth Congress at Barasat, the district headquarters of North 24 Parganas in 1994.
Meanwhile she warned CPI-M against 'daring' to take any such move which might trigger law and order problem and that there should not be any 'hide and seek game' in arresting her if the authorities thought it fit to do so.
"I will not surrender, all these are part of Communist Party of India-Marxist's conspiracy," Mamata said.
She asserted that there was no question of surrendering "since we have not committed any crime".
"We are not killers. We had launched a political movement. It was our right to initiate democratic movement in the interest of the people," she said.
She also alleged that the CPI-M had tried to kill her in 1990 and made several attempts later too and, added no case was instituted then.
But, the party had revived a 1994 case prior to the state assembly elections. "We will fight it out politically," Mamata said.
She added that the CPI-M-led Left Front government wanted to hold on to the power in the state.
The ruling CPI-M is also not too keen on executing the warrant because arresting the opposition leader is a risky political move especially since West Bengal is goeing to the polls in a few months from now.
(With inputs from Rajarshi Roy, Himika Chaudhuri and Aswathy Kumar)
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