%u201CHe refused to help me saying I am not his voter. What a strange response!%u201D Lolita, a teacher-turned-social-worker, said.
Roy confirmed having met Lolita and had no qualms in iterating the basic criterion for getting protection from law-breakers.
%u201CIt%u2019s right that the local people have occupied her vacant land but she is not our voter and we don%u2019t want to antagonise so many refugees for her sake. This is not a public interest matter. So it does not concern me at all,%u201D he said.
Roy seems to have some respect for the law, but only if it is laid down by the high court. %u201CSo many properties have been occupied illegally in Calcutta. We will see whether we can help her only if she files a writ petition in the high court under section 226 (infringement on her fundamental right),%u201D he added.
Contacted, Praveen Kumar, the superintendent of police (South 24-Parganas) said: %u201CWe will comply with the court%u2019s order and will act accordingly.%u201D
Lolita%u2019s father, the late Sailendra Mohan Majumdar, a barrister in Calcutta High Court, had bought the property %u2014 22 cottahs %u2014 a couple of months after India became independent. But the state government took 15 cottahs when the Urban Land Ceiling Act came into being in 1976.
