Sangrami Joutha Mancha And ANR. v. State Of West Bengal And ORS.

04-05-2023 ct no. 13 sl. 14 sp WPA 10840 of 2023 Sangrami Joutha Mancha & Anr.

-VersusState of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Bikram Banerjee, Mr. Sudipta Dasgupta, Mr. Arka Nandi, Ms. Dipa Acharyya, Mr. Saikat Sutradhar, Mr. Sandip Sutradhar, Mr. Sutirtha Nayek, Ms. Shalini Ghosh ...for the petitioners Mr. S.N. Mookherjee, learned Advocate General, Mr. Bhaskar Prasad Vaisya, ld. AGP, Mr. Ranjan Saha, Mr. Raja Ram Banerjee ...for the State 1.

The petitioners are aggrieved that a proposed rally/protest march of employees seeking Dearness Allowances from the State, has been declined by the Joint Commissioner of Police. Three alternative routes have been suggested which are not convenient for the petitioners. 2.

Counsels have exchanged views in Court.

3.

The petitioners shall hold their rally on May 6, 2023 between 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

4.

The route to be taken for the rally is from Hazra More onward on Harza road, upto Harish Mukherjee Road crossing. The rally will

take a right turn into the Harish Mukherjee Road.

5.

They shall proceed thereafter upto D.N. Ghosh Road crossing and take a right turn and move towards S.P. Mukherjee Road and converge back at Hazra More.

6.

The terms and conditions indicated in the application at pages 29 and 30 of the writ petition shall strictly be followed by the rally holders.

7.

The following persons shall be responsible for the compliance of the said terms and conditions of the holding of the peaceful rally, (i) Sribash Tewari (ii) Ajay Senapoti (iii) Chandan Garai (iv) Sunirmal Das (v) Subhashis Das (vi) Subir Saha (vii) Suparna Chakraborty (viii) Tanmoy Gharui (ix) Dhrupada Ghoshal (x) Shambhu Manna (xi) Bhaswati Mukherjee and (xii) Bhaskar Ghosh.

8.

It is expected that no inflammatory and/or provocative speeches shall be made in course of the rally. The rally shall be peaceful and the petitioners shall conduct their program in an orderly manner. The public at large shall not be inconvenienced.

9.

With the aforesaid observation, the instant writ petition shall stand disposed of.

10.

There shall be no order as to costs.

11.

All parties shall act on the server copy of this order duly downloaded from the official website of this Court.

(Rajasekhar Mantha, J.)