Humayun questioned for 4 hours at Rejinagar PS over allegedly provocative speech
Times of India | 4 July 2026
Rejinagar: AJUP chairperson and Nowda MLA Humayun Kabir underwent four hours of questioning at Rejinagar police station on Saturday in connection with a suo motu case registered against him for an allegedly provocative speech at a rally in Kashipur on June 27.
Kabir arrived at the heavily cordoned station at 11:25am, escorted by a large deployment of police and central forces, after skipping a scheduled appearance at Shaktipur police station the previous day over objections to its officer-in-charge.
Before crossing the Bhagirathi from his Manikyahar residence to report for questioning, he addressed AJUP workers at the party office, urging calm and asking them not to fall into provocations should police arrest him — a message his followers also relayed near the under-construction Babri Masjid site in the area.
The case follows a police notice issued on June 30 — a day after CM Suvendu Adhikari issued a stern warning against Kabir in the assembly. Two AJUP functionaries who organised the Kashipur rally have already been arrested.
On Saturday, an investigation team including IO Bijan Roy questioned Kabir using a 12-page questionnaire, the entire session videographed. He emerged at 3:35pm and was served a fresh summons to return on July 14 at 11am for further questioning.
Kabir defended his position, saying restraint must be applied equally to in a democracy. “If anyone hurls bombs at me, I would not throw sweets in return,” he said. He denied threatening to eradicate the BJP locally, asserting everyone has a democratic right to support any political party, and accused BJP and elements of Trinamool of working in tandem against him.
He questioned the state’s claim of “good governance” and “zero tolerance”, pointing out that an 11-point charter of development demands he had submitted — including an industrial park at Rejinagar and road repairs — had gone entirely unacknowledged, even as the CM is scheduled to visit Murshidabad and Rejinagar on July 9.
BJP district secretary Laltu Das dismissed Kabir’s complaints, saying the MLA had “failed to recognise the change in govt” and that the administration would not tolerate the communal politics and provocations allegedly normalised under the previous dispensation.