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Litigant Cannot Use Contempt Proceedings To Challenge Judicial Order Or Attack Judge: Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court has dismissed a criminal contempt petition filed against a Judicial Officer of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, observing that a litigant cannot use contempt proceedings to challenge a judicial order or make personal allegations against the Judge who passed it.The Circuit Bench at Port Blair comprising Justice Prasenjit Biswas held that an aggrieved litigant must...

Bengal Panchayat Bodies Can Auction Ferry Ghats; Hereditary Boatmens Societies Have No Automatic Preference: Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court has held that Panchayat Samitis are empowered to auction ferry ghats vested in them and that the preference available to local boatmen's cooperative societies and hereditary Patnis under the West Bengal Land and Land Reforms Manual does not override the powers of Panchayat bodies to conduct e-auctions.A Division Bench of Justice Shampa Sarkar and Justice Arjun...

ED Need Not Seek Court Permission For Further Probe In PMLA Case Before Trial: Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court has held that the Enforcement Directorate can conduct further investigation in a money laundering case even after filing a prosecution complaint, ruling that prior permission of the trial court is not required where the trial has not yet commenced.Justice Krishna Rao dismissed a writ petition filed by Mahesh Kumar Kejriwal, who had challenged notices issued by the ED...

Non-Disclosure Of Prior Job Application By Newly Appointed Employee Cant Defeat Old Pension Scheme Benefit: Calcutta High Court

A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court comprising Justice Amrita Sinha and Justice Biswaroop Chowdhury held that procedural requirements for disclosure of prior job applications should be interpreted liberally, and non-disclosure by a newly appointed employee unaware of such obligations does not bar entitlement to a beneficial welfare scheme (Old Pension Scheme). Background...

Calcutta High Court Voids OBC Certificates Issued Under 2025 State Notifications, Says Candidates Must Be Treated As General Category

The Calcutta High Court has held that OBC certificates issued on the basis of the West Bengal Government's notifications issued in May-June 2025 were void ab initio, after finding that the notifications themselves lacked legal authority.A Division Bench comprising Justice Rajasekhar Mantha and Justice Anuj Singh was hearing an appeal filed by Shreyasi Dhang, who had obtained an OBC-A...

Calcutta High Court Orders SC/ST Act Probe Into Facebook Posts Allegedly Targeting Dalit Man, Says Public View Extends Online

The Calcutta High Court has set aside a “Nil/No clue” final report in a case concerning alleged casteist abuse of a Scheduled Caste complainant through Facebook, directing further investigation through specialised cyber-forensic channels.Justice Uday Kumar, hearing CRR 2992 of 2023, held that the fact that the complainant had instituted other criminal cases could not be used as a basis...

Cannot Take Law Into Their Hands: Calcutta High Court Questions State Over Bulldozer Use By Private Parties To Dispossess Shopkeepers

The Calcutta High Court recently questioned the West Bengal Government over the alleged use of a JCB bulldozer by private parties to dispossess shop owners, observing that private individuals cannot take the law into their own hands merely because there has been a change of regime.During the hearing, the Court questioned the State authorities on what had transpired and observed: “What...

State Vicariously Liable For Negligent Acts Of Government Hospital Employees Resulting In Loss Of Eyesight: Calcutta High Court

A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court comprising Justice Shampa Sarkar and Justice Arjun Ray Mukherjee held that the State is vicariously liable for medical negligence resulting in loss of eyesight in government hospitals, and compensation can be awarded under Article 226 for violation of the right to life under Article 21. Background Facts The appellant was an electrician...

Pilgrims Offering Prayers At Mosque Inside Kolkata Airport Presents Security Risk: State Tells Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday adjourned a plea seeking interim permission to pilgrims to offer prayers at a mosque located within the Kolkata airport premises, after airport authorities and the State raised security concerns.Upon hearing the case, Justice Krishna Rao did not pass any interim orders, but posted the matter for further hearing on 7th October.The matter was heard in a...

Calcutta High Court Directs Insurer To Compensate 5-Year-Olds Accidental Death Despite Offending Drivers Fake Licence

The Calcutta High Court has enhanced the compensation payable to the parents of a five-and-a-half-year-old girl who died in a road accident in 2014 from ₹3.49 lakh to ₹5 lakh, holding that the amended Second Schedule to the Motor Vehicles Act, which prescribed ₹5 lakh as compensation for death, applied to the pending claim.Justice Md. Shabbar Rashidi was hearing an appeal filed by Soma...