KOLKATA: In response to its interim order issued on Monday, the Mamata Banerjee government told the Calcutta high court that it had withdrawn all advertisements against Citizenship (Amendment) Act and National Register of Citizens on Friday.

After hearing a bunch of six PILs, including two that question the legality of spending public money to protest a central Act, the HC on Monday ordered the government to suspend all such advertisements until it hears the matter again on January 9. The bench headed by chief justice TBN Radhakrishnan and Justice Arijit Banerjee also asked the railways to file a separate affidavit stating the quantum of damages (suffered by them) in anti-CAA protests. The state government on Monday also informed the high court that the ban on internet services in parts of the state had been lifted.

