{"id":15727,"date":"2017-09-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/09\/22\/provide-concrete-grounds-to-impose-curbs-on-durga-statue-immersion-hc-to-bengal-government\/"},"modified":"2017-09-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T12:00:00","slug":"provide-concrete-grounds-to-impose-curbs-on-durga-statue-immersion-hc-to-bengal-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/09\/22\/provide-concrete-grounds-to-impose-curbs-on-durga-statue-immersion-hc-to-bengal-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Provide Concrete Grounds to Impose Curbs on Durga Statue Immersion: HC to Bengal Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/provide-concrete-grounds-to-impose-curbs-on-durga-idol-immersion-hc-to-bengal-government\/articleshow\/60769036.cms\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KOLKATA, INDIA, September 20, 2017 (Times of India): Questioning the West Bengal government&#8217;s curbs on Durga statue immersion, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday said the State cannot hinder a citizen&#8217;s right to practise religion on the basis of a mere assumption of law and order disruption and must provide sound reasons for doing so. &#8220;Let them (Hindus and Muslims) live in harmony, do not create a line between them,&#8221; acting Chief Justice Rakesh Tiwary said, asking the government to provide a &#8220;concrete ground&#8221; for its decision to stop the immersion of Durga statues after 10pm on September 30 (Vijaya Dashami day) and on October 1 on account of the Muslim holy day of Muharram.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing three Public Interest Litigations challenging the restrictions on immersion of statues at the end of the five-day Durga Puja festival, a bench, also comprising Justice Harish Tandon, said a mere assumption that a law-and-order situation might arise, owing to Vijaya Dashami and Muharram falling one after the other, could not be the basis of imposing curbs on immersion timings. &#8220;People have the right to practise their religious activities, whichever community they may be of, and the State cannot put restrictions, unless it has a concrete ground to believe that two communities cannot live together,&#8221; the acting chief justice said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source KOLKATA, INDIA, September 20, 2017 (Times of India): Questioning the West Bengal government&#8217;s curbs on Durga statue immersion, the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}