The decision led to a spat between the Centre and the West Bengal government led by Mamata Banerjee The Centre's appeal through advocate S Wasim Qadri minced no words in expressing displeasure at the HC's decision to interfere with the executive's sole prerogative to determine deployment of forces for the purpose of maintenance of law and order, territorial integrity and national security. A bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar ordered listing of Centre's petition on October 27 for hearing.The Centre said the decision on redeployment of CAPFs was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by home minister Rajnath Singh which considered inputs from intelligence agencies after GJM withdrew its 104-day agitat ion on September 2 9. West Bengal had requested the Centre to keep the forces deployed for two more months. The state government then moved the HC.The Centre said the HC was not the appropriate forum to decide deployment of forces. "Courts cannot express their opinion as to whether at a particular juncture or under a particular situation prevailing in the country, which policy should be adopted and how national security of the country is to be maintained and how armed forces should be deployed," it said.

Source: Times of India October 25, 2017 21:33 UTC