A division Bench of the Calcutta High Court has set aside an order from another bench that permitted the BJP to conduct “Save Democracy” rallies in the state ahead of the Lok Sabha elections next year.

The BJP had received the green signal from the same court yesterday, with a division bench overturning an earlier ruling from a single-judge bench that agreed with the government’s contention that the three “rath yatras” could trigger communal clashes in the state. 

However, today’s order by a division bench headed by Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Debasish Kargupta sent the case back to the single bench, asking it to consider intelligence inputs on the matter by state agencies.