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The Calcutta High Court connected Saturday granted support to a socio-cultural organisation backed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to clasp a protestation rally connected Sunday over 12 rain-related deaths successful and astir the metropolis past month.
After constabulary refusal
The Kolkata Police had refused support to Khola Hawa, stating that the rally was coinciding with the Durga Puja carnival organised by the West Bengal government. The expansive Durga Puja carnival wherever 113 large summons Durga Pujas volition enactment connected Red Road is scheduled connected Sunday. After participating successful Durga Puja carnival, the idols of well-known assemblage puja organisers caput to immersion connected the ghats connected Hooghly river, resulting successful postulation bottlenecks.
Justice Biswaroop Chowdhury directed the constabulary to assistance support to Khola Hawa to clasp the protestation rally astatine the Dorina Crossing successful Esplanade with definite conditions. The rally volition comprise nary much than 3,000 radical and it volition beryllium held betwixt 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., the tribunal said successful directions to the organisers.
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Nod for doctors past year
The statement made by the petitioners seeking support for the rally was that the High Court had past twelvemonth allowed a objection by a doctors’ forum to protestation the rape-murder of a trainee doc astatine R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital.
On September 23, Kolkata and adjoining areas witnessed torrential rains resulting successful 12 persons’ deaths owed to electrocution successful the waterlogged streets of the metropolis and its suburbs. Most of the deaths were reported successful Kolkata. While the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had blamed a backstage energy proviso corp for the deaths, questions were raised implicit the crumbling infrastructure and drainage strategy of the metropolis.
Meanwhile connected Saturday, BJP person Sajal Ghosh who is an organiser of Santosh Mitra Square Durga Puja successful Kolkata urged radical to enactment successful the immersion procession of the Durga Puja arsenic portion of protests against the Trinamool Congress government.
