Calcutta High Court
Calcutta High Court Denies Relief To Bank Manager Accused Of ‘Threatening’ Employee Who Complained Of Illegal Termination
The Calcutta High Court has refused to quash criminal proceedings against a Branch Manager of Standard Chartered bank who had been accused u/s 506 (criminal intimidation) and 509 (outraging modesty of a woman) of the IPC for allegedly threatening an employee who had approached the Labour forum against illegal termination of service.Complainant submitted that the petitioner had threatened her...
Probing Money-Trail Linking Bengali Film Industry To ‘Cash-For-Jobs’ Scam: Enforcement Directorate Tells Calcutta High Court
The Enforcement Directorate today informed the Calcutta High Court that it has begun probing the alleged links between the Bengali film industry and the teacher and municipal recruitment cash-for-jobs scam allegedly involving various high-ranking state functionaries.DSG Dhiraj Trivedi appearing for the ED submitted that one person from the industry has been linked with a money-trail to...
'Lawyers Are Not For Sale': Special Officer In Calcutta HC Claims He Was Offered Bribe By School Being Probed For Misrepresenting Affiliation
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday continued hearing a plea by parents of students scheduled to appear for their ICSE board exams in 2024, complaining of non-registration of their wards with the Council due to lapses by St Augustine’s Day School’s authorities.On an earlier occasion, a single-bench of Justice Biswajit Basu had expressed severe condemnation of the school’s...
TET Candidate Misspells ‘Durga’ In Court, Calcutta High Court Finds Her To Be Unfit To Be A Teacher, Dismisses Her Plea
The Calcutta High Court has recently dismissed a challenge against the Teachers Entrance Test (“TET”) 2014, by a candidate who claimed that she was not selected after the interview, even after allegedly scoring high marks. In dismissing the petitioner’s plea after perusing video footage of her interview, bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay observed: With such sense of spelling a...
Calcutta High Court Issues Guidelines For ‘Rally’ By About 600 Govt Job Aspirants Who Were Denied Group-D Appointments
The Calcutta High Court has allowed a ‘rally’ to be organised by job aspirants on 27th September, who were denied appointments as Group-D employees under the Government of West Bengal, despite having requisite qualifications. A single bench of Justice Jay Sengupta, while allowing the plea, directed the petitioners to hold such a procession, along the designated route, until 5pm, and...
Calcutta High Court Directs Police Commissioner To Monitor Probe Into Student's Death After Falling From School Building
The Calcutta High Court has directed the city’s Commissioner of Police, Vineet Goyal to monitor an ongoing probe into the death of a 16 year old, class 10 student who died after falling from the fifth-floor balcony of his school on September 3rd.The deceased’s father had lodged a murder case against the principal, vice-principal and two teachers of the Silver Point High School. Stating...
Unnecessary Litigation At Cost To Public Exchequer Should Be Avoided: Calcutta High Court Criticises Aided Rabindra Bharati University
In a scathing verdict on the state-aided Rabindra Bharati University, the Calcutta High Court has expressed dismay and distress over the University’s insistence on engaging in ‘unnecessary’ litigation even though a Division-bench had warned them against doing so. A single-bench of Justice Kaushik Chanda observed:This Court is surprised that a State-aided university, at the cost of...
Calcutta High Court Seeks Report On Alleged Police Inaction In Case Over Rape Of 10-Yr-Old Visually-Impaired Child At Children’s Home
The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the State to file a status report in a plea concerning the rape of a ten year-old visually-impaired girl at a blind-school and children’s home in Haridevpur, on the 8th of September. Advocate-petitioner appearing in person, submitted that in spite of serious allegations being made against the alleged perpetrators, the local police had failed...
Calcutta High Court Stops Kudmi Samaj's 'Rail & Road Roko' Protest For ST Status, Says Public Can’t Be ‘Held Ransom’
The Calcutta High Court today ruled against the ‘Adibasi Kudmi Samaj’s’ decision to hold an indefinite sit-in protest on railway tracks from 20th September, in an attempt to disrupt road and rail traffic for bringing attention to their grievances of not being included in the list of scheduled tribes published by the State government. Notably, a PIL on the issue was earlier rejected by...
Calcutta High Court Orders Liberian Ship To Pay ₹88 Crore For Allegedly Damaging Haldia Oil Jetty Or Face Arrest
The Calcutta High Court under its Admiralty jurisdiction, recently ordered the ‘arrest’ of ‘MT TSM Pollux’ a crude oil tanker bearing the Liberian flag (“offending vessel”) for allegedly damaging the twin marine loading unloading arms installed at Haldia Oil Jetty No.1 by its crane while leaving the Haldia docks. Court directed for the arrest order to be vacated in the event that...
Calcutta HC Denies Relief To Man Accused Of Abetting Minor Girl’s Suicide, Says Quashing Such Case Would Cause Miscarriage Of Justice
The Calcutta High Court has refused to quash criminal proceedings initiated against a man accused of abetting the suicide of a minor girl whom he was “in love” with, by allegedly inflicting physical and mental torture upon her, as well as demanding money from her.Accused is booked under Section 306 IPC. Single-bench of Justice Shampa (Dutt) Paul directed the Trial Court to be mindful...
Calcutta High Court Agrees To Hear Plea Over Hike In Grant To Durga Puja ‘Clubs’ By West Bengal Govt
The Calcutta High Court on Monday agreed to hear a plea questioning the West Bengal government's decision to hike the grant offered to Durga puja clubs in the State.Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on 22nd August had announced that the State government would make available a fund of up to Rs 70,000 each to organisers of the various ‘clubs’ hosting Durga puja in various localities all over...