(Aditya Shaw, Intern Journalist): The Calcutta High Court will continue to remain closed till July 19 in view of a rapid increase in the number of COVID-19 patients in the city and a new phase of lockdown in containment zones here, Chief Justice T B N Radhakrishnan said in an administrative order on Monday.
The high court was closed till Monday from Friday last owing to the newly imposed lockdown in the city and for sanitization of the court buildings in view of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Chief Justice had earlier suspended judicial and administrative works of the Calcutta High Court from July 10 to 13 on account of the new phase of lockdown in Kolkata declaring a considerable part of it as containment zones, according to Registrar General Rai Chattopadhyay.