Calcutta High Court
No Case Of Tax Evasion Made Out As Goods Meant For Export Were Taken Back To The Factory For Repairs: Calcutta High Court
The Calcutta High Court has held that no case of tax evasion was made out as goods meant for export were taken back to the factory for repairs.The bench of Chief Justice T. S. Sivagnanam and Justice Uday Kumar has observed that as per the e-Way Bill, no tax was payable since the goods, which were owned by the appellants, were taken back to their factory at Ranchi for repairs. The goods...
Apprehension Of Post-Poll Violence Can't Be Brushed Aside: Calcutta HC Directs Central Forces To Remain In WB After Panchayat Election Results
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday passed a direction for central armed forces to remain in the State for a period of ten days after declaration of results in the West Bengal Panchayat Elections 2023, on the 12th of July. Upon noting the submissions advanced by Senior Advocate Guru Krishna Kumar for the applicant, highlighting the previous incidents of post-poll violence in West Bengal,...
Calcutta High Court Commences Live-Streaming From Circuit Bench At Jalpaiguri; Total Live-Streamed Courts Up To 23, Highest In The Country
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday commenced live-streaming of court proceedings from its Circuit Bench at Jalpaiguri. The commencement ceremony was presided over by Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam who expressed his pride and joy in noting that after the commencement of live-streaming proceedings from the four Benches at Jalpaiguri, the total number of live-streamed Courts at Calcutta High...
Calcutta High Court Refuses To Quash Criminal Proceedings Against Parties Accused Of Outraging Modesty Of A Scheduled Caste Woman
The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday dismissed a revision application to quash criminal proceedings against the petitioners, who were charged under various sections of the IPC and Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act, 1989, for outraging the modesty of a woman belonging to a scheduled caste community. In holding that the case must proceed to trial since a...
Panchayat Elections: Calcutta High Court Dismisses NHRC's Appeal For Appointment Of “Human Rights Observers”
The Calcutta High Court has dismissed the appeal preferred by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against a single-judge’s order which set aside appointment of observers and other related directions issued by the Commission “to protect human rights” in the course of the 2023 Panchayat Elections, on the basis of a media reports on wide-spread violence.In dismissing the appeal,...
Calcutta High Court Criticizes Party For Invoking Writ Jurisdiction For Registration Of FIR Against Police Officials Over Alleged Violence
The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday set aside a single-judge order directing registration of FIR against certain police officials of Baruipur district for alleged violence, while exercising writ jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution.Questioning the perpetual practise of approaching the High Court under Writ Jurisdiction when there are alternate remedies available under other...
Panchayat Elections: Calcutta High Court Reserves Judgement In Appeal Challenging Single-Judge Order Against NHRC's Observers
The Calcutta High Court has reserved its judgment in an appeal preferred by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), against a single bench order which set aside appointment of observers and other related directions issued by the Commission “to protect human rights” in the course of the 2023 Panchayat Elections. The matter was heard by a division bench of Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam...
Law Is Not A Profession, It Is A Calling: Justice Subrata Talukdar Bids Farewell To Calcutta High Court
The Calcutta High Court on Monday held a full-court reference to bid farewell to Justice Subrata Talukdar on the occasion of his retirement. Justice Talukdar was elevated from the Bar as Additional Judge of the Calcutta High Court on October 30, 2013, and subsequently appointed as Permanent Judge of the Calcutta High Court on March 14, 2016. Previously, he was empanelled as a Senior...
Calcutta High Court Monthly Digest: June 2023
NOMINAL INDEX [Citations 148-179]Decco Worldwide Post Harvest Holdings B.V & Anr. V The Controller of Patents and Designs & Anr 2023 LiveLaw (Cal) 148Sujit Kumar Datta v The State of West Bengal & Ors 2023 LiveLaw (Cal) 149Sutapa Adhikari & Ors v State of West Bengal & Anr 2023 LiveLaw (Cal) 150Sekhar Kr Roy v Lila Roy & Anr 2023 LiveLaw (Cal) 151Deepak Chatterjee @...
Interim Relief Under The A&C Act Obtained Without Disclosing Material Evidence, Calcutta High Court Imposes Cost Of Rs. 50 Thousand On Each Petitioner
The High Court of Calcutta has held that a party approaching the Court for relief must do so with clean hands and is under an obligation to disclose all material facts that have bearing on the adjudication of the issues in the case.The bench of Justice Shekhar B. Saraf held that the doors of justice would be closed for litigants approaching the court with a case built on falsehood,...
Calcutta High Court Suspends Sentence Of Woman Convicted For Murder Of 6-Year-Old Step Daughter
The Calcutta High Court recently suspended the sentence of a woman who was sentenced to life imprisonment by the trial court for killing her six-year-old daughter with poison.Taking note of the fact that the woman has already spent over six years in prison and that her appeal against conviction is still pending, a division-bench of Justice Arijit Banerjee and Justice Apurba Sinha Ray said this...
Panchayat Elections: Calcutta High Court Orders Re-Scrutiny Of Nomination Papers Filed By Two Candidates
The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the West Bengal State Election Commission to re-scrutinise nomination papers of two candidates for the upcoming Panchayat Elections, after a was plea filed alleging inaction during the scrutiny process by a Returning Officer from Karimpore-II block in West Bengal. A single-judge Bench of Justice Amrita Sinha ordered:“Without going into the merits...