Latest Justice Saugata Bhattacharya News & Updates

Kolkata, June 11 (IANS) The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police on Friday was handed over the charge of the probe in another case against Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee, where he had been accused of inciting violence and threatening Union Home Minister Amit Shah before the recently concluded assembly polls in the state. Last month, an FIR was registered against Abhishek Banerjee, also the nephew of former West Bengal Chie…

Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) A crucial hearing is scheduled at Calcutta High Court’s single-judge bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharya on Tuesday as the interim protection given by the same bench last week to Jahangir Khan, the Trinamool Congress candidate in Falta Assembly constituency, against police action, including arrest, has ended on May 24, the day when the results for the repolling were declared.With several FIRs registered against Khan in relation to voters’ intimidation before and on t…

Kolkata, May 22 (IANS) Apprehending arrest following multiple FIRs registered against him, Dilip Mondal, the five-time Trinamool Congress legislator from Bishnupur (SC) Assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district and the former West Bengal Minister of State for Transport, on Friday, approached the Calcutta High Court with an anticipatory bail plea.In his petition filed at the single-judge bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharya, he has also pleaded for the scrapping of all the FIRs registe…

Kolkata, May 21 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Thursday, rejected the plea of Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member, for the scrapping of the FIR filed against him last week.However, the single-judge bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharya granted him interim protection from any coercive police actions, including arrest, till July 31.The single-judge bench, at the same time, also imposed some conditions for granting him protection …