New Delhi, July 1 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Thursday sought a response from the Centre and the Election Commission on a plea for a court monitored SIT probe into post-poll violence in West Bengal.

Advocate Hari Shankar Jain, representing the petitioners, argued that as many as 15 BJP workers or sympathisers were murdered and women were abducted and raped in post poll violence after the ruling TMC won the Assembly elections on May 2.

“The government, officers, officials, the administration and the police are supporting those political workers of TMC, due to which the life, liberty, prestige, dignity and modesty of women are being taken away as is evident from the fact that a number of persons have been harmed, butchered, mercilessly murdered, and the girls and women have been raped and no steps have been taken for their safety”, said the plea filed through advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain.