Kolkata, 3 September: A case alleging contempt of court has been filed against Gorkha Jan
Mukti Morcha (GJMM) chief Bimal Gurung and his senior party colleague,
Mr Roshan Giri, at Calcutta High Court today. The matter is scheduled to
be heard on 5 September.
Filing the contempt petition, an advocate of this court, Ramaprasad Sarkar, has alleged that the GJMM activists have not gone by portions of the 14 August order passed by the Division Bench of Mr Arun Mishra, Chief Justice and Mr Justice Joymalya Bagchi.
The state government had been directed to asses the damage to public property during the stir and the GJMM counsel, Abhijit Basu, has been directed to state by an affidavit why his client should not compensate these damages.
The contempt petition has pointed out that people are still intimidated to come out onto the streets ignoring the ‘Janta Curfew’ and ‘Ghar Bhitri Janta’ calls of the GJMM.
These calls are trying to continue the bandh in the hills, though the Division Bench has referred to them as ‘illegal bandh calls’.
“The bandh call was clearly illegal and violated the fundamental rights of the people,” the court had observed.
Both Mr Sarkar and government pleader Ashok Banerjee had submitted earlier that the GJMM’s programmes had forced the people to stay off the streets, thus not being able to get on with their normal lives(SNS)
Filing the contempt petition, an advocate of this court, Ramaprasad Sarkar, has alleged that the GJMM activists have not gone by portions of the 14 August order passed by the Division Bench of Mr Arun Mishra, Chief Justice and Mr Justice Joymalya Bagchi.
The state government had been directed to asses the damage to public property during the stir and the GJMM counsel, Abhijit Basu, has been directed to state by an affidavit why his client should not compensate these damages.
The contempt petition has pointed out that people are still intimidated to come out onto the streets ignoring the ‘Janta Curfew’ and ‘Ghar Bhitri Janta’ calls of the GJMM.
These calls are trying to continue the bandh in the hills, though the Division Bench has referred to them as ‘illegal bandh calls’.
“The bandh call was clearly illegal and violated the fundamental rights of the people,” the court had observed.
Both Mr Sarkar and government pleader Ashok Banerjee had submitted earlier that the GJMM’s programmes had forced the people to stay off the streets, thus not being able to get on with their normal lives(SNS)
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