70 Important Judgements Of Calcutta High Court In 2023

ORDERS/JUDGEMENTS1. 'Depressed' CCL Dies By Suicide In JJ Home, 'Incident Unsettled Us To The Core': Calcutta HC Seeks Accountability Of AuthoritiesCase title - Labu Islam vs. State of West BengalCase Citation: 2023 LiveLaw (Cal) 7The Calcutta High Court took note of an incident wherein a child in conflict with law (CCL), whose bail plea was pending before the High Court in connection with an NDPS Act, died by suicide saying that the incident unsettled it to the core.Observing that CCL can't be reduced to a mere static, the bench of Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya and Justice Siddhartha Roy Chowdhury made the following observations:"We believe that Judges, Judicial Officers, prosecutors, defence counsel, law enforcement agencies and all those who set the wheels of justice in motion and keep it in momentum should be jolted out of their complacency and let their conscience and compassion take over...Even a drop in the ocean may lead to a difference by building a wave of corrective action which one day will turn the tide towards what needs and should be done with immediacy and best intentions."2. No Agitation Within Court: Calcutta HC Orders In Contempt Case Against Protesting Lawyers, Criticizes Defamatory Posters Against JudgeCase Title: The Court on its own motionCitation: 2023 LiveLaw (Cal) 10In a significant development, a three-Judge Bench of the Calcutta High Court issued a slew of directions restraining advocates from holding agitations within the court premises pertaining to the contempt case initiated by Justice Rajasekhar Mantha against the errant lawyers who had created a ruckus outside his courtroom on January 9.A Bench comprising Justices TS Sivagnanam, IP Mukerji and Chitta Ranjan Dash ordered,"Since this Court is seized of this matter, we direct that no meetings, processions, agitations, shall be held or placards shall be displayed within the premises of this Court or anywhere else concerning the subject issue and this direction shall be given due publicity by the Registrar General by intimating to the three wings of the Bar as well as displaying the same in the notice board and also posting the same in the official website of this Hon'ble Court."3. Divorce Can't Be Sought On Ground Of Partner's Infertility, Amounts To Mental Cruelty: Calcutta High CourtCase Title: Sri Uttam Kumar Bose v. State of West BengalCitation: 2023 LiveLaw (Cal) 11The Calcutta High Court ruled that infertility of a woman cannot be a valid ground for seeking divorce. The Court also underscored that asking for divorce by mutual consent from one's wife who is in a traumatic situation for having developed primary infertility amounts to mental cruelty within the definition of Section 498A of the IPC.Justice Shampa Dutt (Paul) observed,“The reason of infertility is not a ground for divorce. There are several options to become parents. A spouse has to be understanding in these circumstances as it is the other (only) who can help one to regain her/his mental, physical and emotional strength. To be able to face the world, the society in general, bravely together.4. IIT KGP Student Death Case| 'Ragging Can Adversely Impact Intellectual Growth, Well-Being & Development Of Nation': Calcutta HCCase title – Salim Ahmed & Anr. v. The State of West Bengal & Ors.Case Citation: 2023 LiveLaw (Cal) 13Stressing that the menace of ragging can adversely impact the intellectual growth, well-being, and development of society and the nation, the Calcutta High Court directed the Director of IIT, Kharagpur to take stern, stringent and deterrent measures regarding the unnatural death of a 23-year-old student and to prevent the recurrence of such incidents in future.The bench of Justice Rajasekhar Mantha also said that the Director of the institute shall be personally responsible to ensure that appropriate counseling, sessions, starting at the ground level, are put in place at the IIT.5. Police Officers Take A Lot Of Abuse From People; Their Work Deserve Appreciation & Respect: Calcutta High CourtCase title - Sri Writuraj Sen & Ors. Vs The State of West Bengal & Anr. [CRR 534 of 2019]Case Citation: 2023 LiveLaw (Cal) 16The Calcutta High Court said that the Police Officers take a lot of abuse from people but their work deserves appreciation and acknowledgment so that they are inspired to do more service effectively.The Bench of Justice Shampa Dutt (Paul) also added too often, the hard and dangerous work that the police officers do, goes unnoticed or at least unrecognized and that most people don't really think about what police do every day in their community until they need assistance from them."The uniform gives the public confidence though they being human too, may react emotionally. If you treat them with respect, they will reciprocate. Officers take a lot of abuse from people who don't know them and simply don't like the police. Showing a little respect will go a long way. But having power given by the statute there may be misuse, which the people ...

70 Important Judgements Of Calcutta High Court In 2023

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