New Delhi: Amid the continued protests in opposition to the rape and homicide of a postgraduate trainee physician at RG Kar Medical Collage and Hospital, the Kolkata police have applied Part 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (previously Part 144 of the CrPC) for seven days across the Medical School and Hospital. The part will likely be efficient beginning Sunday, August 18
In an order issued on Saturday by the Commissioner of Police Vineet Kumar Goyal, it was stated that rallies, conferences, processions, dharnas, demonstrations, and the illegal meeting of 5 or extra individuals are prohibited within the specified space of Kolkata.
“…In train of the ability conferred by Sub-Part (1) of Part 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, learn with Sub-Part (3) of the stated Part, I, Vineet Kumar Goyal, Commissioner of Police, Kolkata, being an Government Justice of the Peace for the Metropolitan space of Kolkata in addition to the district of South 24 Parganas (throughout the limits of the suburbs of Kolkata falling below Kolkata police jurisdiction), do hereby prohibit, for a interval of seven (7) days from 18.08.2024 to 24.08.2024, or till additional discover, any illegal meeting of 5 (5) or extra individuals, carrying of lathis, any deadly or different harmful weapons, or the fee of any act prone to trigger a breach of peace and disturbance of public tranquillity throughout the specified space within the city of Kolkata,” the order acknowledged, PTI reported.
“in regard to inputs and data acquired from credible sources, indicating ample causes for violent demonstrations, rallies, and conferences by a piece of the general public or an organisation, thereby inflicting a breach of peace, disturbance of public tranquillity, well being or security, hazard to human life, and obstruction to docs, nursing workers, medical workers, and lawfully employed individuals within the stated space,” the order added.
On Wednesday, a mob vandalised the protest space and the hospital campus at RG Kar, main safety personnel to intervene and disperse the gang.
