Kolkata, Sep 23 (TIWN) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Friday, dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) demanding a complete ban on political agitation programmes in lines of BJP's march to state secretariat on September 13.

In the PIL, Ramaprasad Sarkar, an advocate by profession, claimed that BJP’s march to Nabanna programme resulted in immense harassment for common people and huge damage to public property. Since, the normalcy was affected on September 13, such agitational programmes should be totally banned henceforth.  The petitioner also demanded that the BJP pay for the damage of the public property caused on that day because of their agitational programme.  However, the arguments placed by the petitioner on this count was not found acceptable by the division bench of the Calcutta High Court’s Chief Justice Prakash Srivastava and Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj and finally they dismissed the petition.