JUDGMENT :

1. This intra-Court appeal by the State of West Bengal and its officers is directed against the order dated 13th March, 2024 in W.P.A. 7218 of 2024. The said writ petition was filed by the respondent no.1/organization, which is the State Co-ordination Committee of the West Bengal Government Employees’ Organizations and Unions. In the said writ petition, the said organization prayed for issuance of a writ of mandamus to allow the organization and its members to conduct rally from Howrah Launch Ghat to Nabanna Bus Stand on 14th March, 2024 at 1: 00 p.m.

2. Prayer was also made to set aside the order passed by the Assistant Commissioner of Police (Headquarters, Howrah Police Commissionerate) dated 5th March, 2024 by which the permission for the conduct of the rally in the proposed route was declined and simultaneously an alternative route was suggested.

3. The learned Single Bench after hearing the parties by the impugned order has observed that since the writ petitioners/organization have undertaken before the Court to hold peaceful rally on the proposed route, they should be allowed to hold the rally and meeting. Further the condition was imposed that the rally shall foll