Rajya Sabha member Samirul Islam said he filed a public-interest petition in the Calcutta High Court on September 25 seeking restoration of drinking-water service for roughly 5,000 residents of Jyotinagar Colony in north Kolkata. Multiple on-site accounts say five or six public taps serving the settlement have been dry since July 29 after Kolkata Municipal Corporation pipeline work.
The colony is largely Muslim, and many residents work in low-income informal jobs. Families told visiting reporters they now collect water from outside the settlement or rely on intermittent tankers. The outage is entangled with a separate eviction dispute over land claimed by Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port; the High Court had previously restrained coercive eviction steps while that case proceeded.
Residents allege that the water cut was deliberate and discriminatory, citing the community’s religious composition and statements attributed to a local legislator. Those claims have not been established by a court. The municipal commissioner’s office did not respond to requests described in reviewed reporting, and no public municipal explanation or court order restoring service was identified when this report was prepared.