Calcutta HC allows BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari to visit Sandeshkhali

Calcutta High Court single bench judge Justice Kaushik Chanda while hearing a petition from Adhikari, permitted him and a few of his followers to visit the areas where prohibitory orders were not in force.

The court, however, warned the Nandigram MLA not to deliver any inflammatory speech there during his visit. Adhikari in his petition prayed that his attempt to visit there last week was prevented by the state police despite the court cancelling the prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) there.

Adhikari, reacting to the court order, said he would take two to three MLAs and proceed to Sandeshkhali on Tuesday.

He said the team would leave around 9 am and reach there within two hours and meet people to listen to their grievances and try to assure them about redressal.

"I'll meet family members of the fourteen-fifteen BJP leaders who have been arrested and call on those who have been tortured by the TMC leaders at Sandeshkhali," Adhikari said.

Sandeshkhali, a remote block about 80 kms from Kolkata, is part of the Basirhat sub-division of North 24 Parganas district.

The region, full of marshes and saltwater lakes, has been in the news following sensational allegations about sexual assaults of women and forcible grabbing of land belonging to tribals by local Trinamool leaders.