Calcutta High Court

A letter written by a senior judge of the Calcutta High Court to his colleagues regarding impropriety in the listing and hearing of the case raises questions about the sanctity of rules and conduct.

The order was passed in a petition alleging that around 200 persons who were displaced due to the violence continue to face threat to their lives due to which they have not been able to return to their homes.

The group that appealed to court had complained of threats from the other group. A complaint in this regard has been lodged with the Topsia police station.

The Calcutta High Court granted interim bail to all four TMC leaders in Narada scam case. The court said, the press will not give me a statement on pending litigation leaders and instructed to fill a private bond of two lakh rupees interim bail.

The Calcutta High Court’s somewhat hurried decision to stay the bail order of the CBI Special judge on four Trinamool Congress leaders has drawn some uncomfortable questions from legal luminaries.

Justice IP Mukerji said: We are almost under full lockdown. This probe started in 2017. They were not arrested then and probe was completed without arresting them. Why do you think they need to be arrested now and prevented from discharging their public duties?”

S. Chatterjee , Counsel for the Asansol Durgapur Development Authority has also submitted that the proceedings have been initiated and the Society as well and the parties have been called for hearing.

The court listened to the SG for a while, before Senior Advocate Kalyan Bandopadhyay, appearing for the state, said that while the SG’s contentions were going on, his clients remained hanging under house arrest.

The petitioner has two-fold grievances that her cashless medical treatment benefit under tie-up between his ex-employer, the Damodar Valley Corporation and the Ruby General Hospital has not been honoured.

The four Trinamool Congress (YMC) politicians under house arrest in the 2016 Narada sting case will have to hang on there for longer, as the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday postponed all court hearings in view of the approaching cyclone Yaas.