'Living Together As Spouses' On Certain Occasions After Separation Doesn't Condone Cruelty: Calcutta High Court Upholds DivorceCase: X v YCitation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 342The Calcutta High Court has held that stray instances of spouses living together after separation do not, by themselves, amount to condonation of matrimonial cruelty, particularly where the subsequent conduct of the...
Case: X v Y
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 342
The Calcutta High Court has held that stray instances of spouses living together after separation do not, by themselves, amount to condonation of matrimonial cruelty, particularly where the subsequent conduct of the offending spouse shows that the cruelty was repeated.
Calcutta High Court Disposes Of Abhishek Banerjee's Plea After HDFC Bank Reactivates Account
Case: Abhishek Banerjee v Union of India and Ors
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 343
The Calcutta High Court on Monday disposed of a plea filed by Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee concerning the reactivation of his bank account, after HDFC Bank informed the Court that the account had been reactivated.
Case :Darjeeling Mary Ward Social Centre Vs. The Union of India & Ors.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 344
The Calcutta High Court has held that the principles of natural justice are “in built” into the renewal process under Section 16 of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 (FCRA), and that an FCRA-registered organisation must be given notice and an opportunity to present its case where the Central Government undertakes an enquiry before refusing renewal.
Calcutta High Court Directs No Coercive Steps Against TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee In Three FIRs
Case: Abhishek Banerjee v State Of West Bengal
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 345
The Calcutta High Court has directed that no coercive action be taken against Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee in three FIRs registered against him, holding that his custodial interrogation was not required at this stage.
Case: SUDIP RAHA VS STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND ORS.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 346
The Calcutta High Court has permitted rival factions of the Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) to hold separate programmes commemorating the organisation's Foundation Day on August 28.
Case: Sinjini Mukherjee v. State of West Bengal
Citation:2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 347
The Calcutta High Court has held that a victim in a criminal proceeding is entitled to obtain copies of documents contemplated under Section 230 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), observing that the mere mention of a wrong statutory provision in an application cannot defeat a substantive legal right.
Case: FOX AND MANDAL AND ANR. Vs SOMABRATA MANDAL AND ORS.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 348
The Calcutta High Court has held that a subsequent user of a trade mark cannot claim rights in the goodwill of a partnership firm merely by asserting an ancestral or familial connection with one of its former partners, and has consequently granted summary judgment in favour of the 1896-founded law firm Fox & Mandal in a passing off action.
Case: X v Y
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 349
The Calcutta High Court has held that a wife's insistence that her husband sever ties with his dependent widowed mother and live separately amounted to mental cruelty in the facts of the case, particularly as the wife's justification for seeking separate residence was based on an allegation of molestation of the parties' minor son which remained wholly unsubstantiated.
Case Details: Anamika Halder (Pal) & Ors. v. Union of India,
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 350
The Calcutta High Court has observed that in railway untoward incident cases, the absence of a recovered ticket from a deceased passenger cannot, by itself, lead to an inference that the person was travelling without a ticket.
Case Details: Ashok Jaiswal v. Amalendu Kumar Nandi
Citatiion: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 351
The Calcutta High Court has held that the expression “dependent” under Section 2(g) of the West Bengal Premises Tenancy Act, 1997 must be understood in a financial context, ruling that dependency cannot be stretched to include psychological or other considerations completely divorced from financial dependence.
Case Details: Dr. Gour Das v. Bhabani Bhattacharjee
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 352
The Calcutta High Court has quashed a criminal proceeding against a doctor after noting that the complainant had alleged that he threatened her uncle in 2018, despite the fact that the doctor had died nearly eight years earlier.
Case: Tangra Dhapa Hawkers Samiti & ors. Versus KMC & Ors
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 353
The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014 protects lawful vending activities, but cannot be invoked to shield unauthorised permanent structures or encroachments on public streets, the Calcutta High Court has held.
Case: RUPESH BECK v. THE STATE AND ANOTHER
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 354
The Calcutta High Court's Circuit Bench at Port Blair has upheld the conviction and 10-year rigorous imprisonment awarded to a 24-year-old man under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO), holding that the consent of a minor to a physical relationship cannot be treated as a mitigating factor.
Case: Purba Chatterjee & Ors. Vs. The State of West Bengal & Anr.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 355
The Calcutta High Court has quashed criminal proceedings against four persons accused of subjecting a woman to cruelty, theft and criminal intimidation in connection with a matrimonial dispute, holding that the allegations in the FIR did not disclose the ingredients of the offences against them.
Case: Arjun Singh v State of West Bengal
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 356
The Calcutta High Court has disposed of a plea filed by BJP leader and West Bengal Transport Minister Arjun Singh after the state police informed the Court that the FIRs challenged by him had already been closed following investigation.
Case Title: Husband of Victim Girl & Ors. v. State of West Bengal & Anr.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 357
The Calcutta High Court has observed that matrimonial disputes may sometimes cross the “fragile threshold separating civil estrangement from vexatious criminal litigation”, and that the institution of criminal proceedings carrying grave penal consequences against an entire extended family, following invocation of civil remedies by one spouse, demands “rigorous judicial scrutiny”.
Case Title: Smt. Barnali Ghosh (Karmakar) v. State of West Bengal & Ors.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 358
The Calcutta High Court has directed the municipal authorities to issue an addendum to a minor child's birth certificate incorporating the name of his stepfather and altering the child's surname, holding that such alteration was necessary in the “best interest of the minor child”.