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Following SC recommendation, Centre elevates 9 Judicial officers as Additional Judge for Calcutta HC

The Ministry of Law and Justice has cleared the names of nine Judicial offices and elevated them to the post of Additional Judges of the Calcutta High Court. Read more on Dynamite News:

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Mamata hikes honorarium to community Durga Puja committees to ₹60,000

The honorarium will cost the State exchequer ₹258 crore; ‘special’ festival this year after recognition by UNESCO list

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Calcutta High Court rejects arrested Jharkhand MLAs plea for probe by Central agencies

Court also rejected application for a stay on the investigation

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Activists press for new anti-trafficking Bill

The Bill will help survivors of different kinds of trafficking, in terms of interstate investigations and rehabilitation

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Mamata in a spot

As another ‘scam’ taints the TMC’s image, the Chief Minister needs to do more about corruption

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Partha Chatterjee’s health stable, asked to get discharged from AIIMS Bhubaneswar

Calcutta High Court had ordered to shift the TMC leader to AIIMS-Bhubaneswar after the ED objected his admission in SSKM Hospital on July 23

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ED moves CHC against Bengal minister's SSKM admission

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has moved the Calcutta High Court challenging a lower court order that led to West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, arrested in connection with the School Service Commision (SSC) recruitment scam, being admitted in the state government-run SSKM Hospital. Read more on Dynamite News:

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Calcutta HC questions West Bengal BJP’s July 21 rally plans

Supporters have begun arriving for the TMC’s massive annual Martyrs’ Day rally in Kolkata on July 21

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Prophet Muhammad remark | Calcutta High Court asks West Bengal government to call in Central forces if stir gets out of control

The Order was passed after petitioners in several PILs sought deployment of Army or Central forces, expressing apprehension that incidents of violent protests may occur again.

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No untoward incident in last 2 days during Prophet remark stir: Bengal government to HC

218 held for violence across West Bengal

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After 11 years, Calcutta High Court directs CBI probe in Trinamool leader’s murder

Tapan Dutta was shot dead on May 6, 2011

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New judges for Delhi, Calcutta High Courts

Nine additional judges of the Madras High Court have been elevated as permanent judges.

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Bangladeshi trafficking victim’s repatriation cannot be stalled: Calcutta High Court

The survivor has been in Liluah Home at Howrah for safe custody since December 2017.

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TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee questions ‘1% of judiciary’ for CBI probes in Bengal

Trinamool leader says ‘1%’ in the judiciary are ‘working hand in glove’ with the BJP at the Centre

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School recruitment scam, a major worry for Trinamool government

With two Ministers in the dock, protests gather momentum in West Bengal

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Calcutta HC orders CBI-NIA to probe alleged forced religious conversion case in Malda district

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the National Investigation Authority (NIA) to probe an alleged case of forced conversion in West Bengal's Malda district.

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West Bengal recruitment scam: CBI registers FIR against five officials

The FIR follows the directions of a division bench and a single bench of the Calcutta High Court after the court took note of the irregularities in the recruitment process.

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Calcutta High Court rejects TMC leader’s election petition over citizenship

Alo Rani Sarkar’s name appears in Bangladesh’s electoral roll; dual citizenship not applicable in India, court says

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Calcutta High Court asks CBI to probe construction on Kolkata's Tripura House premises

Justice Amrita Sinha also imposed a penalty of ₹44 crore on the owner and developer of the building, with each being asked to pay ₹22 crore, for felling a large number of trees within the premises

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West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee appears before CBI in recruitment scam

Partha Chatterjee was the State Education Minister when the alleged appointments were made

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SSC scam | Calcutta High Court refuses to hear Minister’s plea seeking stay on Order to appear before CBI

The division Bench refused to hear the plea, saying that since the appeal has not been affirmed or filed in the registry of the court, it cannot hear the prayer

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2.34 lakh cases pending at Calcutta High Court, 41% judges’ posts vacant

The Calcutta High Court, which has a sanctioned strength of 72 judges, is functioning with only 39 judges, according to data provided on its website

The Hindu

Chidambaram faces protests by lawyers claiming allegiance to Bengal Congress

They were upset that the Congress leader was representing a firm in a corruption case filed by State Congress chief

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Law and order in turmoil

The immediate task for West Bengal’s government is to restore the reputation of the police force

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