Kolkata, Feb 11 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday granted anticipatory bail to Bengali actor and BJP MLA Hiran Chatterjee in connection with bigamy case.His first wife Anindita Chatterjee had filed a case against him at Anandpur police station.After that, the BJP MLA had filed a plea for anticipatory bail at Calcutta High Court. Hearing the case, Justice Jay Sengupta’s bench granted him anticipatory bail. However, Hiran will have to appear before the investigating officer once every 15…
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Kolkata, Feb 4 (IANS) The Sandeshkhali issue is back in the Calcutta High Court, with the BJP filing a petition in which it claims that its party workers and supporters are being falsely implicated in cases.The party has alleged that the police have filed FIRs against BJP workers, including Gangadhar Koyal, in Sandeshkhali, North 24 Parganas district.The petition was admitted on Wednesday, and a hearing is likely to take place on Thursday.The BJP’s allegations include the filing of arms cases ag…
New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court has ruled that alleged caste-based abuses hurled over the telephone, and not in any place within public view, would not prima facie attract the stringent provisions of the SC/ST Act. While disposing of an application for anticipatory bail, a single judge Bench of Justice Jay Sengupta observed that since the allegations in the FIR pertained to abuses allegedly made over a phone call, the essential ingredients of Sections 3(1)(r) and 3(1)(s) of the …