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Accordingly, the existing public prosecutor, Sashwatagopal Mukhopadhyay, has been replaced by advocate Debasish Roy.
The hearing on a PIL filed in the Calcutta High Court against West Bengal MoS in-charge of Correctional Services Department, Akhil Giri, for his derogatory remarks referring to the looks of President Droupadi Murmu was postponed on Tuesday.
Calcutta High Court has also directed the Kolkata Police Commissioner to take steps so that there is no further violence.
A division bench of Calcutta High Court on Tuesday upheld an earlier order of the single-judge bench of the same court ruling out the requirement of a parallel probe in the coal smuggling scam by the CID.
BJP's counsel Smrajit Roy Chowdhury informed the court that of the total arrested, 44 were from Kolkata only.
The division bench has admitted the petition and the Chief Justice himself assured that the matter will be heard on a fast-track basis. The matter is likely to be hard on August 26, 2022.
