Promise To Marry After Initial Sexual Assault Cannot Shield Accused: Calcutta High Court Upholds Rape Conviction

The Calcutta High Court has upheld the conviction of a man for rape, holding that a subsequent promise to marry after an initial act of forcible sexual assault cannot absolve the accused of criminal liability. The Court observed that while the parties later entered into a physical relationship on the accused's repeated assurances of marriage, the initial act was without the victim's consent...

No Trade Licence Needed To Register Partnership Firm Of Advocates Under Partnership Act: Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court has held that a partnership firm constituted exclusively for carrying on the legal profession cannot be compelled to produce a trade licence as a precondition for registration under the Indian Partnership Act, 1932, observing that such a requirement finds no place in the statutory scheme governing registration of partnership firms.Justice Bivas Pattanayak, sitting at...

'Street Vendors May Lose Sole Means Of Livelihood': PIL In Calcutta High Court Seeks Action Against Alleged Illegal Evictions

The Calcutta High Court has been moved by an advocate through a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) alleging that authorities in West Bengal are preparing to carry out large-scale eviction of street vendors across the State without complying with the mandatory safeguards under the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014.The petitioner, claiming to be...

CPIM(L) Moves Calcutta High Court Challenging WB Govt's 'Blanket Re-Verification' Of 1.69 Crore Caste Certificates

A Public Interest Litigation has been filed before the Calcutta High Court by the Communist Party of India, (Marxist Leninist), Liberation, challenging a memorandum issued by the West Bengal Government directing a blanket re-verification of all Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Other Backward Class (OBC) caste certificates issued in the State since 2011.The petition assails...

Calcutta High Court Weekly Round-Up 16 June To 21 June, 2026

Withdrawal Of Earlier Challenge To Defective Charge Memo Doesn't Bar Disciplinary Authority From Issuing Fresh, Valid Charge Memo: Calcutta HCCase Name : Gitesh Das Mahapatra Vs. State of West Bengal & Ors. Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 250A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court comprising Justice Madhuresh Prasad and Justice Prasenjit Biswas held that the dismissal of a prior...

Calcutta High Court Declines Urgent Hearing To Trinamool Congress In Plea Challenging Freezing Of Bank Accounts

The All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) on Monday moved the Calcutta High Court, challenging the freezing of three of its bank accounts, alleging that debit operations had been stopped pursuant to police directions.The matter was mentioned before Justice Saugata Bhattacharya by Senior Advocate Kishore Datta, who sought an urgent hearing. The court however, directed the Senior Advocate to...

Trinamool Congress Moves Calcutta High Court Over Recent Attacks, Egg-Pelting Incidents Against MLAs, MPs

The All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) has approached the Calcutta High Court by filing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) alleging a series of violent attacks and public humiliation of its leaders, MPs, MLAs and party workers across West Bengal.The matter was mentioned on Monday by Senior Advocate Sirsanya Bandopadhyay before a Division Bench headed by Acting Chief Justice...

Union Govt Notifies Appointment Of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty As Acting Chief Justice Of Calcutta High Court

The Union Government has notified the appointment of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty as the Acting Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court following the retirement of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul on June 20, 2026.The notification, issued by the Ministry of Law and Justice (Department of Justice) on June 19, states that the President has exercised powers under Article 223 of the Constitution to...

Govt Employees' Participation In Yoga Day Program Optional, No Punitive Action For Non-Attendance: State Tells Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court on Friday disposed of a petition challenging the West Bengal Government's notification calling upon government employees to participate in the International Yoga Day event to be led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Kolkata's Red Road, after the State clarified that participation was purely voluntary and that no coercive or punitive action would be taken against...

"Rival TMC Faction Secured Greatest Numerical Strength": Calcutta HC Refuses Stay On Appointment Of Ritabrata Banerjee As LoP

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday refused to grant interim relief to senior Trinamool Congress leader Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay in his challenge to the appointment of a rival faction leader, Ritabrata Banerjee, as the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, holding that no prima facie case had been made out for an injunction. (2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 251)Justice Krishna...

'State Employees Requested To Participate In International Yoga Day Event To Set World Record': WB Govt Tells Calcutta High Court

The state was responding to a plea challenging the alleged mandate on state employees to participate in the event, which will be presided over by PM Modi from Kolkata's Red Road.

Calcutta High Court Questions State Over 7-Day Closure Of Red Road For Yoga Day Event, Directs Police To Facilitate People's Commute

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday questioned the necessity of keeping Kolkata's Red Road closed for seven days ahead of the International Yoga Day event to be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while directing the police to make effective alternative traffic arrangements for commuters and restore the road for public use immediately after the June 21 programme.While refusing any...