The Human Rights Commission has sought a full investigation & report from the Police Commissioner on the ‘Cartoon-gate’ arrest of the Jadavpur University professor. This step has been taken suo moto, after a detailed discussion at the Human Right Commission on the issue. This is sure to increase the embarrassment of the Trinamul government. Meanwhile, Facebook has not taken cognizance of the CID’s missive to provide information on the sources of the cartoons lampooning the CM & the order to delete all unflattering references to the CM. There have been serious doubts amongst the legal fraternity as to the legitimacy of such an order. The Indian constitution allows freedom of expression & Facebook is governed by a strong principle of protection of privacy. Moreover, the request is person specific & not bipartisan as it is silent on the extremely vulgar representations on the left leaders. The situation of partisanship on the part of the government where its police has been singularly consistent in protecting the aggressors & punishing the victims, worsened with another such incident at Baruipur, on the fringes of the Kolkata city. Prof. Aparesh Bhattacharya & his daughter were beaten up in broad daylight at his home by Trinamul goons. The police refused to act on his complaint. Having returned from the US after a long career there, he recently retired as a senior principal scientist at Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB). His attempt to seek justice from the CM’s secretariat was rebuffed thrice.