Kolkata, Feb 26 (IANS) Political tensions continue to simmer in West Bengal amid the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, as the final voter list is set to be published on February 28 in line with Supreme Court directives. West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Agarwal confirmed on Thursday that the list will be released on schedule, but with special markings to address ongoing cases and deletions. Agarwal explained that the final roll will include two additional features …
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Kolkata, Feb 26 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court, on Thursday, sought 200 judicial officers — 100 each from the High Courts of Odisha and Jharkhand — to join the team of judicial officers already appointed for adjudication of voters’ documents identified under the “logical discrepancy” category.The decision to seek these 200 judicial officers from the neighbouring states was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul. The meeting was attended by C…
Kolkata, Feb 22 (IANS) As the deadline for the expiration of the scrutiny phase of the voters’ documents submitted during the hearing session on claims and objections to the draft voters’ list in West Bengal has concluded, uncertainty remains regarding the number of voters’ documents classified as “logical discrepancy” cases that are to be verified by the judicial officers, as instructed by a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court.The deadline ended on Saturday midnight 12. At the meeting chaire…
Kolkata, Feb 21 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court Chief Justice, Sujoy Paul, will chair a crucial meeting on Saturday to finalise the blueprint for appointment of serving, as well as retired judicial officers to oversee adjudication of claims and objections arising from the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound West Bengal, which was directed by a three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court on Friday.The meeting to be chaired by Justice Paul will be attended, among ot…
Kolkata, Feb 2 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court has issued an order to control bursting of firecrackers on the night of Shab-e-Barat. A Division Bench of Calcutta High Court’s Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen issued this order on Monday, said court sources.The order says that no firecrackers can be set off from 10 pm on the night of Shab-e-Barat until 6 am the following morning. The use of firecrackers must comply with the rules of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board. …
Kolkata, Jan 22 (IANS) A day after Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim instructed all police stations and traffic outposts in the city to be proactive in controlling air pollution, after the Calcutta High Court took suo motu cognisance of the issue, environmentalists on Thursday said that the measures are not enough. The environmentalists said that it is too little and too late as the city has been grappling with high air pollution levels for a very long time, and several measures have not been implement…
Kolkata, Jan 13 (IANS) West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President and Rajya Sabha MP, Samik Bhattacharya, on Tuesday, filed a public interest litigation at a division bench led by the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, Sujoy Paul, seeking the court’s intervention for ensuring security at all polling booths for the Assembly elections in the state scheduled later this year. “For the past many years, there had not been a single instance of absolutely peaceful voting in West Bengal. What …