Kolkata: A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Tuesday, allowed the West Bengal BJP to continue the protest in front of the private medical college and hospital at Durgapur in West Burdwan district till October 19 against the gangrape of a second-year student.

Earlier on Tuesday, the West Bengal unit of the BJP approached Calcutta High Court’s single-judge bench of Justice Shampa Dutt (Paul) seeking permission to carry out its protest demonstration near the medical college till October 19, as the Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissionerate authorities denied permission for the same.

The matter came up for hearing later in the second half of Tuesday, and after a detailed hearing in the matter, the Calcutta High Court finally permitted the state unit of the BJP to continue with t

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