HC drops Suvendu Adhikari from Gangasagar Mela tracking panel

Through PTI

KOLKATA: Calcutta Top Court docket on Tuesday dropped the chief of the opposition within the state meeting from a 3 member committee shaped on January 7 to observe tracking compliance of Covid restrictions at Gangasagar Mela in Sagar Island.

The West Bengal govt run through the Trinamool Congress objected to the inclusion of the Chief of the Opposition, BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari, within the committee.

The department bench of Leader Justice Prakash Shrivastava and Justice Kesong Doma Bhutia has as a substitute reconstituted it to a two member committee comprising former Justice Samapti Chatterjee and the member secretary of the West Bengal Prison Services and products Authority.

Previous, whilst permitting the once a year congregation of pilgrims to happen between January 8 and 16, the bench directed that all of the Sagar Island be declared a notified house.

The bench on Monday iterated that this be carried out inside of 24 hours.

It additionally recommended that each one the ones visiting the Mela must be doubly vaccinated and take a look at detrimental in an RTPCR take a look at, performed 72 hours earlier than achieving the venue.

It has additionally requested for strict legislation of crowds to deal with social distancing.

Declaration of the island as a notified house will empower the state to take measures for protecting the well being and welfare of the pilgrims because it deems vital.

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