Kolkata, July 22 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday issued a notice for interrogation to former Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Subhashish Chakraborty in connection with the central agency’s ongoing investigation into three frozen bank accounts, which hold a total deposit of Rs 440 crore.Chakraborty is currently treasurer of the faction in the Trinamool Congress, led by the former West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, and her nephew, the party’s general secret…
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Kolkata, July 20 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Monday, refused an interim stay on the decision of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to freeze three bank accounts of the Trinamool Congress with combined deposits of Rs 440 crore.Following the refusal of the single-judge bench of Justice Krishna Rao to entertain the plea of the former West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata-Banerjee-led faction for an interim stay on the ED-imposed freeze on these bank accounts, “debit rest…
Kolkata, July 17 (IANS) The hearing on the petition filed by the “original but minority” faction in Trinamool Congress challenging the decision of the West Bengal Assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose regarding the appointment of Ritabrata Banerjee, the leader of the “rebel but majority” faction in the party, as the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the House concluded on Friday at a division bench of the Calcutta High Court. However, the division bench of Justice Sampa Sarkar and Justice Ajay Kumar G…
Kolkata, July 10 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress faction led by the former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday approached a single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, challenging the actions initiated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against three bank accounts held by the party with a private sector bank with a combined deposit amount of Rs 440 crore. The case in relation to these three bank accounts are complicated following the parallel investigations by the West Bengal …
Kolkata, April 30 (IANS) Advocate Kalyan Banerjee, a Member of Parliament from the Trinamool Congress party, and lawyer Biswaroop Bhattacharya have filed PILs in the Calcutta High Court concerning the vote counting for the West Bengal Assembly elections.Kalyan Banerjee said on Thursday that the Election Commission of India (ECI) was only appointing Central government employees as supervisors at the counting centres. “They cannot make that decision. Let the court intervene in this matter,” he sai…
Kolkata, April 21 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday overturned the earlier order of a single judge bench quashing the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s decision to appoint college teachers as presiding officers for the forthcoming two-phase Assembly polls in West Bengal.On April 17, a single-judge Bench of Justice Krishna Rao quashed the ECI’s order for the appointment of college teachers as presiding officers for the forthcoming polls, but maintained that the college teachers who…
Kolkata, April 20 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday approached a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court challenging an earlier order by a single-judge Bench of the same court, quashing the poll panel’s decision to appoint college teachers as Presiding Officers for the forthcoming two-phase Assembly polls in West Bengal, later this month.On April 17, the Calcutta High Court’s single-judge Bench of Justice Krishna Rao, quashed the ECI’s order for the appointment of col…
Kolkata, April 17 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Friday quashed the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s decision to appoint college teachers as presiding officers for the forthcoming two-phase Assembly polls in the state.A single-judge bench of Justice Krishna Rao quashed the ECI’s order.The Commission had appointed assistant professor-rank college teachers to work as presiding officers for the upcoming Assembly elections in the state, issuing the notification a few days ago.It also anno…
Kolkata, April 2 (IANS) The Election Commission has exempted officials of the School Service Commission engaged in the state teacher recruitment process from Assembly election-related work. As a result, Justice Krishna Rao praised the role of the Election Commission, saying that the new teacher recruitment process underway in 2025, in the case of the cancellation of 26,000 SSC jobs, will not be hindered, court sources said on Thursday.On March 1, about 24 officials from the School Service…
Kolkata, Dec 24 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Wednesday, directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to clarify Other Backward Class (OBC) certificates issued by the West Bengal government after 2010, which were scrapped earlier by the high court, as supporting documents for the second phase of the three-stage Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state. Last week, the West Bengal unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), approached the Calcutta High Court’s single…