A division bench, comprising Chief Justice J N Patel and Justice Joymalyo Bagchi, refused to start suo motu proceedings against Banerjee after the matter was mentioned before it.
The division bench instead asked the lawyers to move a petition if they wanted to.
The bench also observed that they were her personal comments and that the court was not perturbed by such comments.
A section of lawyers also moved the court of Justice K J Sengupta who said that he would hear the matter at 2 PM.
Banerjee had allegedly commented during a function in the state Assembly that there were instances when court judgements had been delivered for money.
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