High Court Division Bench Quashes Order Permitting BJP’s Rath Yatra Rallies

Kolkata: The BJP’s plans to take out Rath yatra rallies christened ‘Save democracy rallies’ in West Bengal again hit a roadblock, with a Calcutta High Court division bench on Friday quashing the order of a single bench that gave a conditional go-ahead to the programme. The division bench comprising Chief Justice Debasish Kargupta and Justice Shampa Sarkar sent the case back to the single bench with a directive that the latter consider the intelligence inputs provided by the state agencies.

The Mamata Banerjee government had moved an appeal at the division bench against Thursday’s single bench order and sought an urgent hearing. While setting aside the single bench’s order, the division bench directed it to study afresh the 36 intelligence inputs from 31 police stations and five police commissionerates submitted by the state government before it. (IANS)

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