Kolkata, May 12 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress has moved the Calcutta High Court seeking its intervention into post-poll violence in the state post the declaration of West Bengal Assembly election results.Trinamool MP and lawyer Kalyan Banerjee’s son Sirsanya Banerjee, who has filed this Public Interest Litigation (PIL), on Tuesday, mentioned the matter before the division bench of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and requested an urgent hearing on the petition.The lawyer alleged that more than 2.000 Tri…
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Kolkata, May 5 (IANS) A day after the Trinamool Congress’ defeat in the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly polls, the Advocate General of the state, Kishore Datta, tendered his resignation on Tuesday.Datta had forwarded his resignation to the office of the West Bengal Governor, R.N. Ravi, insiders from the Lok Bhavan confirmed.He was appointed as West Bengal’s Advocate General twice during the last 15 years of the Trinamool Congress regime since 2011.An extremely close confidant of outgoi…
Kolkata, April 22 (IANS) A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court, comprising Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen, on Wednesday ordered a fine to be imposed on the Joint Director of the State Land and Land Reforms Department. The Central Government has paid the land acquisition fee, but the land has not been handed over for the construction of a barbed wire fence on the India-Bangladesh border.The High Court was dissatisfied after reviewing this report from the state…
Kolkata, March 31 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Tuesday, quashed two public interest litigations (PILs) filed by a Trinamool Congress leader challenging the decisions of the Election Commission of India’s large-scale transfers of bureaucrats and police officers in West Bengal amid the two-phase Assembly elections in the state next month.The case was argued in the court by the party’s Lok Sabha member, Kalyan Banerjee, who served as the petitioner’s counsel.One of the two…
Kolkata, March 30 (IANS) A fresh petition has been filed at a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Monday over the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s order on Sunday transferring 83 Block Development Officers (BDOs), who are also Returning Officers, and 184 Inspector-rank police officers officiating as officers-incharge or Inspectors-incharge of different police stations in West Bengal.On behalf of the petitioner, his counsel Kalyan Banerjee, a four-time Trinamool Congress MP and sen…
Kolkata, March 27 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday reserved its verdict on a public interest litigation challenging the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s decision on large-scale transfers, replacements, and deputations of bureaucrats and police officers in poll-bound West Bengal.The hearing in the matter concluded before the division bench comprising Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen. At the end of the hearing, the bench directed the Electio…
Kolkata, March 23 (IANS) In a significant development late on Monday evening, the Election Commission of India (ECI) removed as many as 73 Returning Officers (ROs) in West Bengal, which is scheduled to go to the polls in two phases next month on April 23 and April 29.The development opens a new line of confrontation between the ECI and the West Bengal government, as the state government and the ruling Trinamool Congress are already up in arms against the Commission over the transfer of several b…
Kolkata, March 23 (IANS) The preliminary hearing at the Calcutta High Court on the public interest litigation (POL) challenging Election Commission of India’s (ECI) decision to transfer several top bureaucrats and police officers in poll-bound West Bengal concluded on Monday, with the ECI’s counsel arguing that the transfers of bureaucrats and police officers varies from state to state depending on the ground-level requirement in the state concerned.The next hearing by the division bench of Ch…
Kolkata, March 23 (IANS) A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed in the Calcutta High Court on Monday regarding the death of a Dum Dum resident after he was trapped in an elevator at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. The petition alleges negligence and seeks a CBI investigation into the incident.The Division Bench, headed by Chief Justice Sujoy Paul, has granted permission to file the case. The matter is scheduled to be heard on March 27.On Monday, social activist Vijay Kumar Singhal fil…
Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) A new bench of the Calcutta High Court was constituted on Thursday to hear the matter of the gruesome rape and murder of a junior doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital here in August 2024.The new bench comprises Justices Rajasekhar Mantha and Rai Chattopadhayay.The new bench was constituted because earlier this month, the previous division bench of Justices Debangshu Basak and Md Shabbar Rashidi recused itself from hearing the matter because it was no longer …