New Delhi, June 19 (IANS) The Centre on Friday issued a notification appointing Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty as the Acting Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court following the retirement of incumbent Chief Justice Sujoy Paul.”In exercise of the power conferred by Article 223 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint Shri Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty, Judge of the Calcutta High Court, to perform the duties of office of the Chief Justice of that High Court consequent up…
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Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) Senior Advocate Surojit Nath Mitra has been appointed as the new Advocate General of West Bengal. He succeeds Kishore Datta, who tendered his resignation from the chair on May 5, a day after the results of the recently conducted West Bengal Assembly elections were announced.Practising for over four decades as a legal practitioner since 1983, Mitra’s expertise has been in civil and commercial law.The judicial department of West Bengal issued a notification announcing the …
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Kolkata on Tuesday remanded 15 more accused persons arrested by the central agency officers in connection with the West Bengal judicial officers’ hostage case earlier this year to 14 days of judicial custody. In the night-long operations started from Monday night which continued till Tuesday morning, the NIA sleuths arrested these 15 individuals accused in connection with the April 1 incident in which seven judicial of…
Kolkata, May 14 (IANS) A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday evening ruled that no one in West Bengal should be evicted from his or her residence or business establishment just because of political affiliation. The Division Bench of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen also directed West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police to take strong action to prevent incidents of post-poll violence in the state.The Division Bench passed the order while hearing a public inte…
Kolkata, May 14 (IANS) A mild tension erupted at the premises of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday as Mamata Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress chief and former Chief Minister, was leaving the court premises after arguing as a counsel on a PIL filed at a division bench on the alleged post-poll violence in the state.The Chief Minister complained of being assaulted by a section of lawyers at the Calcutta High Court premises.As the former Chief Minister was leaving the court premises, a section of …
Kolkata, April 1 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress, on Wednesday, wrote a letter to the Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul, requesting the latter to ensure that in case of “logical discrepancy” cases in West Bengal that will be rejected in course of the ongoing judicial adjudication process, the “grounds of rejections” should be mentioned by the judicial officers involved in the process. In an email communique sent to Justice Paul, Trinamool Congress had said that the “ground of rejection”…
Kolkata, March 27 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Friday wrote to Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul, expressing concern over 11 party candidates whose cases have been referred for judicial adjudication and whose status remains unclear.In the letter, written by West Bengal Minister of State for Finance (Independent Charge) Chandrima Bhattacharya, the party provided a list of the 11 candidates and requested the Chief Justice to ensure that the judicial process in these cases is expedit…
Kolkata, March 20 (IANS) A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in Calcutta High Court challenging the transfers of bureaucrats and police officers of the West Bengal cadre ordered by the Election Commission of India (ECI) since the Model Code of Conduct came into force from Sunday.The PIL was filed at a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court in the run up to the crucial two-phase Assembly elections in the state next month.On behalf of the petitioner, Arka Nag, the PIL was filed by…
Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul is scheduled to chair a crucial meeting on Thursday on the publication of the first supplementary list of voters referred for judicial adjudication, which had been categorised under the “logical discrepancy” category.The first supplementary list on this court is expected to be published on Friday, and the meeting, chaired by Justice Paul, is meant for the last-minute review of the progress of the judicial adjudication made…
Kolkata, March 11 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court, allotted the R.G. Kar rape & murder case by then Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam, on Wednesday recused itself from hearing the matter.According to the division bench of Justice Debangshu Basak and Justice Md Shabbar Rashidi, when the matter was allotted for hearing to it by then Chief Justice Sivagnanam, it was hearing criminal cases.However, since this division bench does not hear criminal cases anymore, the judges decided …