WB school recruitment scam: SC partially stays Calcutta HC order
Extends interim protection to appointees.
Extends interim protection to appointees.
Noting the delay by the State police in arresting Shahjahan Sheikh, Justice Gavai asked senior advocate Jaideep Gupta why Shahjahan Sheikh was not arrested for so many days.
The Supreme Court took an unprecedented step in the wake of conflicting back-to-back orders passed by the single judge and the division bench of the Calcutta High Court on an issue relating to a caste certificate.
As per the causelist published on the website of the apex court, the five senior most judges of the Supreme Court will hear the suo motu matter in a special sitting on Saturday.
Accordingly, the existing public prosecutor, Sashwatagopal Mukhopadhyay, has been replaced by advocate Debasish Roy.
A division bench of Calcutta High Court on Monday cleared BJP's plea to file a PIL over the attack on the convoy of Union Minister of State for Home Nisith Pramanik in West Bengal allegedly by the ruling Trinamool Congress activists.
The matter will now be heard by the division bench of Chief Justice Prakash Srivastava and Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj.
This, after court had struck down appointments of 53 alleged undeserving aspirants
Trinamool Congress strongman and the party's Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal on Tuesday moved the Calcutta High Court seeking bail in the multi-crore cattle-smuggling scam.
Pointing out that there is no provision of mentioning the "mother's name", the petitioner has pointed out that this is contrary to certain articles of the Indian Constitution.
