Calcutta High Court

Mamata Banerjee's petition challenging Subhendu Adhikari's Nandigram victory has been assigned to a judge in the Calcutta High Court who was close to the BJP before he became a judge, say Trinamool Congress sources. West Bengal CM's lawyer has written to the Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal on this.

Personnel of the police station shall be posted outside the house of the Petitioners until the next date, ordered the Court.

The bench while posting the matter for further hearing on June 22 said, “Matter will be taken up on Tuesday. In the meantime, we hope the HC will not hear the matter on Monday or Tuesday."

The Calcutta High Court on Friday decided that the petition filed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, challenging the Nandigram Assembly poll result, will be heard on June 24.

The Calcutta High Court has said that all the authorities are expected to act in accordance with law expeditiously, keeping in mind that the retired employee cannot be deprived of his legitimate retirement benefits.

Justice Shampa Sarkar ordered: “…it is an admitted fact that the petitioner was not an in-service candidate when he started his course.

Luthra also referred to the West Bengal State amendment to Section 167 CrPC. He said that West Bengal is only State which allowed production of accused through video audio conference even before the Covid era. Luthra referred to 2(g).

During the first half of the hearings, Senior Advocate Dr Abhisekh Manu Singhvi, said that casual arrest (as has allegedly happened) “is a draconian thing.

The Division Bench of Justice Harish Tandon and Justice Soumen Sen was yesterday hearing a Suo Motu petition regarding the contagion of COVID-19 in Child Protection Homes.

Justice Sen pointed out to the SG that the judgments cited by him (as above) referred to disruptive circumstances that arose 'during the course of trial'. The judge asked: "Can you give us any illustration of the present case where such transfer was allowed in bail application?"