Senior CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat was on February 20 allowed to visit the restive Sandeshkhali in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district after being initially stopped by police.
The move by the local administration came after a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court presided by the Chief Justice allowed the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari and another BJP MLA Shankar Ghosh to go to Sandeshkhali and upheld a single Bench order that stayed for a week the Prohibitory Orders imposed in certain places there.
Ms. Karat, who said that she was stopped at Dhamakhali ferry ghat by the police saying that they apprehended breach of peace if she went to Sandeshkhali, was later allowed to visit the protests-hit area by the police.
