City police today came in for some lavish praise from the Calcutta High Court for its conduct during Martyrs’ Day event in the state capital.
The Calcutta High Court judge, Justice Tirthankar Ghosh had asked the Kolkata Police to ensure normal traffic flow between 9-11 a.m, peak office hours on Monday, when lakhs of Trinamul Congress supporters were to converge at the heart of the city.
Justice Ghosh today expressed satisfaction on the overall maintenance of traffic as mandated by the court during office hours in the morning. He said maintenance of traffic today was “excellent”.
“The way traffic was manned by the city police today deserved a kudos as it made arrival in court by 10 a.m. all the more possible,” Justice Ghosh said in the court.
Lavishing praise further on the city police’s role, Justice Ghosh said that he had always faith in the city police’s capability.
Mr Justice Ghosh’s today’s observation came on the heels of a fellow lawyer, who, expressing satisfaction, said that he too arrived in court on time just as he did daily. To which, Justice Ghosh made his observation on the state of traffic on city roads today.
Justice Ghosh, however, took exception to the actions by a section of the lawyers of the Bar Association, who approached the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, T S Sivagnanam today praying for not to pass any ruling without hearing all the parties concerned present in the court.
Citing this, Justice Ghosh, who was sore over the absence of some lawyers in his court, angrily said that this was not a way a court could run.
Taking an exception to the absence of lawyers, Justice Ghosh further said that it would be hard to believe the fact that one can’t reach court today by 10.30 this morning, particularly the way traffic was maintained today.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation too was quick on the job of cleaning the road and the rally area by deploying scavengers as soon as the meeting got over.
Earlier on Friday, Justice Trirthankar Ghosh had, in a ruling, had directed the city police to keep roads free of congestion and snarls at peak office hours between 9-11 a.m.