In a setback for the opposition events in Maharashtra, the Bombay Excessive Courtroom has restrained political events and even people from calling for a Maharashtra bandh. The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance of Congress, Shiv Sena-UBT and NCP-SP has referred to as for a shut-down throughout the state tomorrow (August 24) to protest in opposition to the alleged sexual assault of two minor women at a college in Badlapur in Thane district. After the Excessive Courtroom order, Chief Minister Ekanth Shinde has vowed to implement the no-bandh order.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice D.Okay. Upadhyaya and Justice Amit Borkar directed the Maharashtra authorities to take all mandatory measures to stop the bandh. The judges indicated {that a} detailed order could be issued quickly in response to 2 petitions filed on Friday by advocates Subhash Jha and Gunaratna Sadavarte, difficult the bandh name.
“We’re restraining any political celebration and/or any particular person from calling for a bandh. The state shall take all preventive steps,” the HC stated.
In the course of the listening to within the courtroom, State Advocate Common Birendra Saraf stated that the decision for a normal strike was unlawful and the state authorities would take all steps to make sure there isn’t any injury or destruction of human lives or property.
Advocates Jha and Sadavarte identified a judgment of the Kerala Excessive Courtroom which held that no political celebration can name for a state-wide bandh, and an HC has ample powers to intervene in such issues. Additionally they cited the instance of the Maratha reservation agitation throughout which numerous public property was destroyed.
Following the Excessive Courtroom order, Nationalist Congress Occasion (SP) president Sharad Pawar Friday appealed for the withdrawal of Saturday’s Maharashtra bandh referred to as. In a put up on X, Pawar stated the bandh name was given in train of elementary rights enshrined within the Structure, however the judiciary additionally must be revered. Earlier within the day, the HC restrained political events and even people from calling for a Maharashtra bandh.
