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Calcutta High Court Grants Relief To BJP Leader Suvendu Adhikari
08 Dec

Calcutta High Court Grants Relief To BJP Leader Suvendu Adhikari

Business Correspondent0 CommentsPolitical,
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday stayed proceedings against Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari in criminal cases registered against him at various police stations in the state.Saying that the FIRs were registered on silly charges to oppress him, Adhikari moved the high court seeking repeal of the cases against him. Justice Rajasekhar Mantha stayed proceedings in all the criminal cases against the Leader of Opposition till the disposal of his petition before the court. The BJP leader's lawyer said that though there was an prior order of the high court that no forceful measures can be…
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Calcutta High Court Appoints New Head To Probe West Bengal Teachers’ Job Scam
19 Nov

Calcutta High Court Appoints New Head To Probe West Bengal Teachers’ Job Scam

Business Correspondent0 CommentsPolitical, West Bengal
Calcutta High Court has appointed senior police officer Ashwin Shenvi as the head of the SIT, investigating the alleged teachers' job scam in the state of West Bengal. Mr Shenvi is a 2006-batch IPS officer from the Haryana cadre. He had joined the Central Bureau of Investigation in the year 2020 and was the SP at Jind, Haryana. "CBI has referred the names of Sudhanshu Khare, Michaelraj S and Ashwin Shenvi. Out of these three names, I select Mr Ashwin Shenvi, who is DIG ACB in CBI Chandigarh, that has vast experience in investigation of corruption cases," the single judge…
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Calcutta High Court Orders CBI Probe Into Alleged Illegal Appointment Of Asst. Teachers In West Bengal
02 Mar

Calcutta High Court Orders CBI Probe Into Alleged Illegal Appointment Of Asst. Teachers In West Bengal

editor0 CommentsWest Bengal
The Calcutta excessive court docket on Monday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the alleged unlawful appointment of assistant instructors in type 9 and 10 in state-run schools.A single-judge Bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay said the investigation should be carried out underneath the supervision of a joint director of CBI, and a preliminary report be submitted by way of March 28. Appearing on behalf of petitioner Mohammed Abdul Gani Ansari, suggest Firdous Shamim said, “In type 9 and 10, recommendation for appointment of teachers was made for candidates who had received lower marks and did no longer…
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Calcutta High Court Dismisses PIL Seeking Removal Of WB Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar
18 Feb

Calcutta High Court Dismisses PIL Seeking Removal Of WB Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar

editor0 CommentsPolitical,
The Calcutta High Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking the removal of West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on grounds that he was destroying the spirit of federalism. A Bench of Chief Justice Pakash Shrivastava and Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj dismissed the petition filed by lawyer Rama Prasad Sarkar on the grounds that the court, even with the limited scope of judicial review in the case, was not satisfied that the material placed along with the petition furnished any ground to entertain the plea. Chief Justice Srivastava observed that Article 361 of the Constitution provides that the Governor shall not be…
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The Calcutta High Court has ordered parents to pay half of the required school fees
10 Aug

The Calcutta High Court has ordered parents to pay half of the required school fees

editor0 CommentsEducation
AGENCY: The court ordered the educational institutions involved in this public interest litigation (PIL) to send each defaulting guardian a notification stating the outstanding fees as of March 2020 within a week. The Calcutta High Court on Friday (August 6, 2021) ordered that defaulting parents pay at least half of their students' due school fees within three weeks, failing which it will consider allowing the institutes involved in the litigation to take punitive action, such as removing the students' names from the school's roll. The court also stated that for pupils who have passed their board exams for grades 10…
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House Arrest For 2 Bengal Ministers, 2 Leaders: High Court In Bribe Case
21 May

House Arrest For 2 Bengal Ministers, 2 Leaders: High Court In Bribe Case

editor0 CommentsNorth East,
The Calcutta High Court on Friday denied interim bail for all four Bengal politicians - including two ministers - in jail after being arrested by the CBI earlier this week in connection with the Narada case.All four will now be placed under house arrest, the court ruled. The order was passed shortly after a difference of opinion split the two-member bench - acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal ordered house arrest but Justice Arijit Banerjee ordered interim bail. Now, a larger bench will be constituted which will hear the matter,” Manishankar Chatterjee, the lawyer for Subrata Mukherjee, said. “Meanwhile, the four…
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Calcutta High Court orders house arrest of four TMC personnel in Narada case
21 May

Calcutta High Court orders house arrest of four TMC personnel in Narada case

editor0 CommentsNorth East, , , ,
The Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered the house arrest of the two Bengal ministers, one MLA and the former Kolkata Mayor who have been held in the Narada bribery case. The Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and Justice Arjit Banerjee was hearing the case. This comes a day after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had labelled the arrests as “political vendetta”. “The matter is sub judice and I do not want to comment. However, I will say whatever happened to them is wrong. It is a clear instance of deliberate political vendetta. Bobby [Firhad Hakim] and his…
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