Calcutta high court lifts stay on Didi's Puja dole

KOLKATA: The

Calcutta high court

on Wednesday lifted its interim stay on grants the state had decided to disburse to community

Puja organisers

, prompting petitioners to say they would move Supreme Court challenging this.


The division bench of acting Chief Justice Debasish Kar Gupta and Justice Shampa Sarkar held that government's original decision to grant the funds was an executive order, and the law of the land didn't allow court to examine such an order at first instant. "It is for the legislature to scrutinise the decision first. The court can entertain petitions questioning an

executive decision

at a later stage after the legislative scrutiny," the acting chief justice said.

The court has ruled that as of now, the relevant government order, issued on September 24, was valid.