Calcutta High Court Directs Urgent Decision On NEET Aspirant's EWS Certificate, Says Mother's Voter List Deletion Not RelevantCase: Priyangshu Mukherjee Vs. State of West Bengal & Ors. Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 329The Calcutta High Court has directed the authorities to urgently consider the request of a NEET-UG 2026 aspirant seeking an Economically Weaker Section (EWS) certificate,...
Case: Priyangshu Mukherjee Vs. State of West Bengal & Ors.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 329
The Calcutta High Court has directed the authorities to urgently consider the request of a NEET-UG 2026 aspirant seeking an Economically Weaker Section (EWS) certificate, making it clear that the deletion of his mother's name from the voter list due to a discrepancy in her name cannot be taken into consideration while deciding his eligibility.
Unarmed ATM Caretakers' Job Profile Does Not Qualify As Security Work: Calcutta High Court
Case: State Bank of India Vs Union of India & Ors.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 330
The Calcutta High Court has held that the job profile of unarmed personnel employed as ATM caretakers, involving maintaining cleanliness and keeping an overall watch over ATMs, does not qualify as security work.
Case: MD DANISH FAROOQUI VS THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND ORS.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 331
The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation alleging that police authorities in West Bengal were orally directing mosque committees to remove loudspeakers, holding that the allegations made in the petition were vague and unsupported by specific material.No Prejudice In Awarding Marks For Wrong Questions To All Candidates: Calcutta High Court Upholds Coal India Promotions
Case: Ganesh Tiwari & Anr. Vs. The Coal India Limited & Ors.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 332
The Calcutta High Court has dismissed two writ petitions challenging a promotion process conducted by Coal India Limited (CIL), holding that the uniform award of marks to all candidates for 19 questions found to be erroneous or outside the syllabus did not amount to changing the “rules of the game” after commencement of the selection process.
Case: BHAGWATDAS JAISWAL vs. KOLKATA MUNICIPAL CORPORATION AND ORS.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 333
The Calcutta High Court has directed the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to immediately stop the operation of a mega garment store, M-Bazaar, being run from the premises of the erstwhile Paradise Cinema Hall at 39 Bentinck Street, Kolkata, holding that a garment business could not be operated from an assembly building without obtaining the requisite permission for change of use under Section 416 of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, 1980.
Case: Soma Mukhopadhyay Vs State of West Bengal & Ors.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 334
The Calcutta High Court has quashed a preliminary enquiry and statements of allegations containing 93 charges against one Bagnan College teacher and 70 against another, holding that several allegations concerning unauthorised absence, attendance violations, service and academic records, promotions and alleged irregularities were either vague, frivolous or so stale that they could not reasonably be answered after decades.
Case: Srikanta Paul v. Purshottam Lal Sanganeria (HUF) & Ors.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 335
The Calcutta High Court has held that a person whose tenancy comes to an end by operation of Section 2(g) of the West Bengal Premises Tenancy Act, 1997 cannot claim the status of a tenant for invoking the jurisdictional protection under Section 12A of the Act. The Court observed that whether such an occupant is described as a "trespasser" or a "tenant at sufferance" is immaterial, since he no longer falls within the statutory definition of a tenant.
Case Name : Koushik Chatterjee & Ors. Vs. The State of West Bengal & Ors.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 336
A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court comprising Justice Madhuresh Prasad and Justice Prasenjit Biswas held that the reserved category candidates who availed relaxed standards in the personality test are not automatically barred from competing for unreserved vacancies if the governing rules and scheme permit merit-based consideration on aggregate marks.
Union Of India Being A 'Model Employer' Cannot Violate Equality In Public Employment: Calcutta HC
Case Name : Union of India & Anr. v. Dr. Sanjoy Bhattacharyya
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 337
A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court comprising Justice Partha Sarathi Chatterjee and A.C.J. Tapabrata Chakraborty held that regularization of ad hoc employees must be granted uniformly to all similarly situated individuals, and cannot be denied on the grounds of precedent being in personam when the facts and circumstances are identical.
Case: Aniket Manna v State Of West Bengal
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 338
The Calcutta High Court has directed the concerned SIR Appellate Tribunal to decide within two weeks an appeal challenging the deletion of the petitioner's mother's name from the electoral roll, after the issue allegedly came in the way of the petitioner's passport application.
Case: Md Shabir v State of West Bengal
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 339
The Calcutta High Court has directed the SIR Appellate Tribunal to decide within two weeks, an appeal challenging the deletion of a petitioner's name from the electoral roll, after the deletion allegedly came in the way of renewal of his passport.
Case: Swami Atmabodhananda @ Subrata Maharaj General Secretary, Ramkrishna Vedanta Math Vs. State of West Bengal & Ors.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 340
The Calcutta High Court's Circuit Bench at Jalpaiguri has set aside an order directing the District Magistrate, Darjeeling to convene a meeting and consider measures for preservation and maintenance of relics and articles kept at a Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, after a petitioner alleged that sacred relics associated with Swami Abhedananda were being kept in a neglected and unsafe condition.