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The Latest Breaking News from Calcutta High Court

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

The Hindu

Law and order in turmoil

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

The Hindu

Judicial appointments for Calcutta, Himachal HCs

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Mamata Banerjee pulls up Bengal police officers for violence, sexual assault case

State government facing loss of face because of your negligence, she says

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West Bengal post-poll violence | Lawyers' group to meet President Ram Nath Kovind; take out protest march on April 29

Addressing a press conference, the association's convener Kabir Shankar Bose said a candle light tribute march has been organised for families of the victims

The Hindu

Trinamool government trying to say no one killed Anish Khan: CPI(M)

SIT has reportedly indicated that death of the 28-year-old student leader may be “non-homicidal”

The Hindu

Calcutta High Court orders forensic audit of CCTV footage of Contai municipal poll

The court was hearing a PIL plea by BJP’s Soumendu Adhikari alleging violence, malpractices in the election

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587 awarded victim compensation in West Bengal in six years, 60% for offences under POCSO

SLSA has disbursed ₹15.81 crore to the victims and their families, in six years

The Hindu

Anish Khan death case | SIT submits probe progress report to Calcutta HC

West Bengal Government's lawyer told that the investigation was nearing completion

The Hindu

CBI arrests absconding accused in Nadia rape case

The agency took over the case on April 13 following a directive from the Calcutta High Court

The Hindu

CBI probe into Birbhum violence, Hanskhali rape in West Bengal gathers momentum

Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar alleges that the bureaucracy in State is politicised

The Hindu

Bengal rape victim’s father speaks of threats

Accused said he will kill the family.

The Hindu

Schools reopen in Kolkata, yellow-card entry for kids with no dues

KOLKATA: Ashok Hall School, Mahadevi Birla Shishu Vihar and G D Birla Centre for Education reopened their gates on Monday to those students whose parents have cleared their pending fees, following a two-day shutdown. While these students were given special identity cards, the rest stayed away from the schools, ensuring…

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SSC probe report: West Bengal panel, its appointments illegal

KOLKATA: A committee appointed by the Calcutta High Court to probe irregularities in school recruitment has found the five-member panel set up by the education department to oversee the appointments “not valid under the law” and has blamed the panel members for the illegal appointments in Group D posts.

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Calcutta HC sets aside speaker’s ruling on Mukul plea

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court on Monday set aside Bengal assembly speaker Biman Banerjee’s ruling that Krishnanagar Uttar representative and Public Accounts Committee chairman Mukul Roy was a BJP MLA. The court set a four-week time frame for the speaker to decide on Mukul’s disqualification as member/chairman of PAC.

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No vicarious liability on state for judicial actions: Calcutta high court

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court on Monday dismissed a Rs 100-crore compensation claim against the Bengal government for vicarious liability, holding it responsible in a case of alleged defamation against a high court judge. “There is no master-servant relationship between the State and a High Court Judge, and accordingly, there is…

The Times of India

Calcutta HC hands over probe into Bogtui neta murder to CBI

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court handed over the Bogtui upapradhan murder investigation to CBI more than a fortnight after Bhadu Sheikh was killed by motorbike-borne miscreants on March 23.

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Trial courts can give life till death only in rape cases, says Calcutta HC

KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court has directed all trial court judges to stop the practice of sentencing murder convicts to life imprisonment till death, unless in heinous rape and gangrape cases in which law provides for such sentences. It said such orders can be misinterpreted that the sentences cannot be…

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Grill SSC ex-adviser for making 'false statements': Calcutta HC to CBI

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court ordered fresh interrogation of West Bengal School Service Commission's former adviser Santi Prasad Sinha after the court found him to have made "deliberate false statements" in court regarding alleged illegal appointments in state-aided schools.

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Kolkata: Fee hike needed, say schools. First talk to us, say guardians

KOLKATA: The fee dispute, in which Kolkata schools and guardians have been locked ever since had campuses closed for the pandemic, seemed to reach the boiling point with the indefinite shutdown of G D Birla Centre for Education at Regent Park, Ashok Hall Girls’ Higher Secondary School at Minto Park…

The Hindu

Birbhum violence | Calcutta High Court takes on record CBI’s preliminary report

It reserves order in plea for probe into murder of deputy gram pradhan

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Probe recruitment of teachers, Calcutta HC directs CBI

Agency has free hand to interrogate anyone, says judge

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TMC forms Jhalda civic board as Congress hits streets

The development comes at a time when people of the municipality located in the Purulia district are organising sustained protests over the murder of Kandu.

The Hindu

West Bengal SSC recruitment scam roils Calcutta HC

Several division benches recuse themsleves from hearing plea amid on-going CBI probe

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Calcutta High Court asks CBI to probe Congress councillor’s murder

The agency has been told to file its final report before the Court within a month

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