Agartala, Aug 19 (TIWN) The Tripura High Court on Wednesday rejected a petition filed by the Trinamool Congress seeking a stay order on the probe against the party's national General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu and four others, and directed the police to continue with their probe against the Trinamool leaders for allegedly obstructing the police from performing their duties, court officials said.

“The court has allowed the investigation to continue against the accused persons. However, the court has directed that the report should not be drawn up without the leave of the court,” the AG said.  The Khowai police had registered an FIR against All India General Secretary of Trinamool Congress Abhsishek Banerjee, Member of Parliament Dola Sen, Bengal education minister Bratya Basu, Kunal Ghosh, Tripur unit leader Subal Bhowmik and Prakash Das for obstructing them from performing their duties.