Police personnel route march at Rishra space to take care of legislation and order state of affairs on the event of Hanuman Jayanti, in Hooghly on Thursday.
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A six-member workforce comprising civil society activists was on Saturday stopped by the police from visiting the areas affected by violence throughout Ram Navami celebrations at Rishra in Hooghly district of West Bengal.
The “fact-finding” workforce, led by retired Patna High Court choose L. Narasimha Reddy, was stopped close to Konnagar earlier than coming into Rishra.
The cops mentioned that prohibitory orders have been in place in the violence-affected space. Members of the workforce mentioned that they’d meet the Commissioner of Chandannagar Police and urge him to permit the workforce to go to violence-affected areas.
A member of the workforce mentioned that prohibitory orders underneath Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure solely meant that meeting of individuals was barred.
The workforce can be scheduled to go to Shibpur in Howrah district on Sunday, and can be hoping to fulfill West Bengal Home Secretary B.P. Gopalika over the violence that had erupted over Ram Navami processions in Shibpur on March 30 and April 4 in Rishra.
In one other growth, leaders of the Indian Secular Front (ISF) have been additionally stopped from visiting Rishra. “People at Rishra are peace-loving and united but some people did try to incite trouble here. Our objective was to go to Rishra and talk to the local administration on the prevailing situation,” the ISF chief mentioned.
Earlier a number of leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), together with State celebration president Sukanta Majumdar and Hooghly MP Locket Chatterjee have been stopped from visiting Rishra. After violence throughout Ram Navami, the Calcutta High Court had directed the deployment of Central forces throughout Hanuman Jayanti on April 6. There have been no reviews of any violence in the course of the Hanuman Jayanti celebrations.
The Left Front has referred to as for a peace march on April 9 in Hooghly and on April 10 from Bally Khal to Shibpur.
