Bengal Bandh: Calcutta High Court rejects PIL against BJP's 12-hour bandh

Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice H Bhattacharyya ruled that the PIL was inadmissible because the petitioner, Sanjoy Das, had previously been prohibited from filing any PILs in a prior case.

PTI
Siliguri: A BJP worker lies on the road to block the way of a state government bus during the party's 12-hour general strike in Bengal (Bengal Bandh) to protest the police action against participants of Tuesday's ‘Nabanna Abhijan’ rally which was held against the Kolkata RG Kar incident, in Siliguri.
The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday declined to hear a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that sought to prevent the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from holding a state-wide Bengal Bandh, and called the bandh 'illegal,' reported ANI.

Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice H Bhattacharyya ruled that the PIL was inadmissible because the petitioner, Sanjoy Das, had previously been prohibited from filing any PILs in a prior case.

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