August 18, 2024 1:20 PM.
The Kolkata Police has imposed Section 163 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 around RG Kar Medical College and Hospital for seven days with effect from today to prevent unlawful gathering of five or more people in the area.
Two leader’s of Students Federation of India have been picked up from Behala area by Police in connection with the vandalism that occurred on the intervening night of August 14th at the Medical College.
Meanwhile the former principal of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital has been again called by CBI interrogation at CGO Complex today. He was also interrogated yesterday.
In an order released on Saturday by the Commissioner of Police, Vineet Kumar Goyal, it was stated that rallies, meetings, processions, dharnas, demonstrations, and the unlawful assembly of five or more persons are prohibited in the specified area of Kolkata.
“…In exercise of the power conferred by Sub-Section (1) of Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, read with Sub-Section (3) of the said Section, I, Vineet Kumar Goyal, Commissioner of Police, Kolkata, being an Executive Magistrate for the Metropolitan area of Kolkata as well as the district of South 24 Parganas (within the limits of the suburbs of Kolkata falling under Kolkata police jurisdiction), do hereby prohibit, for a period of seven (7) days from 18.08.2024 to 24.08.2024, or until further notice, any unlawful assembly of five (5) or more persons, carrying of lathis, any lethal or other dangerous weapons, or the commission of any act likely to cause a breach of peace and disturbance of public tranquillity within the specified area in the town of Kolkata,” the order stated.