The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday refused to vacate the stay imposed earlier by its single-judge bench on recruitments for supernumerary posts in the upper-primary sections in state-run schools of West Bengal.
The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed Manoj Verma, commissioner of Kolkata Police (KP) to probe the incident of defacing judge’s photo and heckling lawyers inside the court premises.
The Supreme Court also accepted the observation of the Calcutta High Court that the entire panel had to be cancelled because of the failure on the part of the state government and the commission to segregate the "genuine" candidates from the "tainted" ones.
The new public interest litigations that will be filed at the Calcutta High Court in future will now be heard by the division bench of Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Smita Das.
On a politically charged Wednesday, while Leader of Opposition in Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari held a counter-programme in Contai, former BJP state president Dilip Ghosh took a divergent path by honouring an invitation from the state government and visiting the newly-inaugurated Jagannath temple in Digha.
Calcutta High Court judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Sunday said he will resign from his post on 5 March.
Rebel Congress leader and counsel at Calcutta High Court Kaustav Bagchi announced his resignation from the party, today.
The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday granted unconditional bail to Nirapada Sardar, former CPM MLA from Sandeshkhali, the trouble-hit island of North 24-Parganas.
The HC has also directed the administration not to allow Ahmed to enter into the school. With the court directive, he is not coming to the school.
Within an hour of Justice Abhijit Ganguly’s order the Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court (HC) on Wednesday stayed CBI inquiry to probe into alleged irregularities in connection with admissions in MBBS courses in government medical colleges in the state.
