Krishnagar (WB), May 19: The Krishnagar bandh called by the Congress to protest against the firing in which a local party leader and senior lawyer Debashis Ray was injured, passed off peacefully, police said. Shops and markets were closed during the bandh. Schools and educational institutes were also closed. Attendance in office and business establishment were thin, police said. Vehicles remained off the road.
The Krishnanagar Bar Association has called a 72-hour ceasework in all courts in Nadia district from today in protest against the shooting at Ray, the secretary of the Krishnagar Bar Association and a former vice-chairman of Krishnanagar municipality.
Biswanath Mondal, the arrested security guard of Nadia District Consumer Forum chairman, could not be produced before the court due to lawyer's ceasework.
Ray was shot by Biswanath Mondal, the security guard of Nadia district consumer forum chairman when the advocate was leading a gherao of the forum chairman S K Basu at the court premises here protesting against an attempt to shift the forum from the court to another location yesterday.
Lawyers also demanded punishment for S K Basu. Bureau Report