TAMIL NADU: After the district police refused permission for the road show, The Madras High Court on Friday granted permission for Prime Minister Modi’s roadshow in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore to be scheduled for March 18.
The court has also directed the police to permit the roadshow, with certain conditions imposed.
“There shall be a direction to the police to grant the permission and necessary police protection by imposing reasonable conditions,” the court said
According to the police statement, the permission was denied due to security reasons.
The four-kilometre-long roadshow was to culminate in the ground where the Coimbatore bomb blast of 1998 took place in which 58 people died and more than 200 were injured.
PM Modi is on a tour of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Telangana where the party has a strong support base in Karnataka.
