Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to immediately seal all the areas in the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital that may be linked with the ghastly rape & murder of a junior woman doctor there in August 2024.A division bench of Justice Shampa Sarkar and Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, which had been recently assigned the matter, at the end of its first hearing, specially directed the agency to ensure that the s…
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Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) A new division bench of the Calcutta High Court, Justice Shampa Sarkar and Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, will hear on Tuesday the case on the 2024 ghastly rape and murder of a woman doctor of the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital.As per the cause list of the Calcutta High Court, the hearing in the matter will start at 1 p.m.After the previous division bench headed by Justice Rajasekhar Mantha recused from hearing the matter on May 12, observing that “this impor…
Kolkata, May 16 (IANS) The RG Kar rape and murder case has been transferred to a new bench of the Calcutta High Court. On Saturday, Chief Justice Sujoy Paul specified that the matter would now be heard by the division bench of Justice Shampa Sarkar and Justice Tirthankar Ghosh.The victim’s family has filed a fresh application in the High Court seeking a CBI probe into the incident of August 9, 2024.The counsel for the victim’s family has also filed a petition in the High Court seeking permis…
Kolkata, April 27 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Monday slightly modified its single-judge bench order on restrictions on the use of motorcycles ahead of the second and final phase of the Assembly elections in West Bengal.A division bench of Justice Shampa Sarkar and Justice Ajay Kumar Gupta directed that not only motorbike rallies but group riding on two-wheelers will also be barred on polling day and two days prior to it.Effectively, riding motorcycles in groups will not be allowed from Apr…
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…