It is by now a familiar script — you criticise Mamata Banerjee only to elicit a harsh reaction. If Samaresh Banerjee thought he was immune to the rule by dint of being a former judge of Calcutta HC and ex-Lokayukta, he was wrong. The former judge and his wife were allegedly threatened and abused over phone on Wednesday and Thursday by anonymous callers posing as journalists, police said on Friday. "The person threatened that I will be falsely implicated in a rape case," said the ex-judge. His fault? He criticised the West Bengal CM for her "corruption in judiciary" remark, during a TV interview.

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