Kolkata, July 23 (IANS) A single-judge Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday rejected a plea from the Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, seeking an overall protection from coercive police action, including arrest in all the eight FIRs registered against him in various cases at different police stations in West Bengal.The matter came up for hearing at the single-judge Bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya. At the end of the hearing Justice Bhattacharyya made a verbal …
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Kolkata, July 10 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Friday gave an ultimatum to Trinamool Congress General Secretary, Abhishek Banerjee, asking him to appear at Bidhannagar Court and give his voice samples to sleuths of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), failing which the single-judge Bench would withdraw protection from coercive police action against the leader.The court asked Abhishek Banerjee to appear at Bidhannagar Court in North 24 Paragans district of West Bengal by 2 p.m. on Jul…
Kolkata, July 8 (IANS) CPIM leader Meenakshi Mukherjee on Wednesday moved the Calcutta High Court, seeking its intervention against the egg attack on her car on Tuesday. Meenakshi’s lawyer, Abhishek Halder, drew the attention of the single bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya of the Calcutta High Court to the egg-pelting incident.He said that eggs were pelted on Meenakshi’s car when she went to meet the family of a deceased party worker in Sitalkuchi of Cooch Behar district in North Bengal, an…
Kolkata, July 3 (IANS) A single-judge Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday rejected a plea by Trinamool Congress’ General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, for a fast-track hearing on his petition seeking exemption from providing a voice sample to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of West Bengal Police.The CID seeks to collect Abhishek Banerjee’s voice samples in the case where he is accused of making inciting statements and threatening Union Home Minister Amit Shah at a campaign ra…
Kolkata, June 23 (IANS) A district court in North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, on Tuesday granted permission to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to collect voice samples of Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee in connection with a case where he has been accused of inciting violence and threatening Union Home Minister Amit Shah before the recently concluded Assembly polls. Based on video footage of Banerjee’s alleged statements at a pre-election ra…
Kolkata, June 10 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Wednesday moved the Calcutta High Court, challenging the alleged actions by the state Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at its party offices on Tuesday with regard to the legislators’ signatures mismatch case.In the petition filed at the single-judge vacation court of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya, on Wednesday morning, the four-time party Lok Sabha member and senior advocate, Kalyan Banerjee, said raids and search operations were c…