Kolkata, July 27 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Monday directed the West Bengal Police to ensure that former Trinamool Congress legislator and Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Deputy Mayor Atin Ghosh is not arrested while his bail plea is pending before it.Ghosh’s plea for anticipatory bail in a case registered against him in connection with land-grabbing charges was scheduled to be heard by the single-judge bench of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh on Monday.However, for some reason, the hearin…
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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, July 1 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday granted interim bail to the Trinamool Congress leader Jay Prakash Majumdar in a flat encroachment case. He will be released from judicial custody after about a month.Police arrested Jay Prakash on June 3, who is accused of illegally occupying a flat for 14 years. Jay Prakash had approached the Calcutta High Court seeking bail. The case was to be heard in the bench of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh. But on June 29, Justice Ghosh withdrew from …
Kolkata, June 29 (IANS) There is uncertainty surrounding the hearing of the plea filed by Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee in the Calcutta High Court against the Criminal Investigation Department’s (CID) decision to collect his voice sample in his ‘DJ remark’ case. On Monday, Abhishek’s plea against CID’s move to collect his voice sample was not heard in the High Court. It is also unclear whether it will be heard on Tuesday.On the orders of the lower court, Abhishek will have to appear at…
Kolkata, June 25 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court, which on May 21 directed a fresh probe into the R.G. Kar rape and murder case by a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), on Thursday slammed the central agency for conducting what it described as a “lackadaisical” probe so far. As directed by the division bench of Justice Shampa Sarkar and Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, the CBI submitted a progress report on Thursday. After e…
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…
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, May 12 (IANS) Justice Rajasekhar Mantha’s bench in the Calcutta High Court has recused itself from hearing the case of the rape and murder of a woman doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. The bench noted that there was a surplus of cases in the court. The state government is likely to form a judicial commission to address the case. In the interest of justice, the bench was of the opinion that the case could be heard by that bench, which could dedicate sufficient time to the iss…