Calcutta High Court Directs SIR Tribunal To Expeditiously Consider Hajj Pilgrims' Plea Seeking Passport, Visa After Voter Roll Deletion

Case: Md Akhtar v State of West Bengal

Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 414

The Calcutta High Court has directed the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) Appellate Tribunal to expeditiously consider an appeal filed by Hajj pilgrims whose names were deleted from the electoral roll, after they approached the Court seeking relief to enable them to obtain passports and visas for their pilgrimage.

Calcutta High Court Dismisses Congress Plea Challenging Age Discrepancy In BJP Nandigram By-Poll Candidate's Affidavit

Case: West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee v ECI

Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 415

The Calcutta High Court has dismissed a plea filed by the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee challenging alleged discrepancies in the election affidavit of Bharatiya Janata Party's Nandigram bypoll candidate Hasirani Rath.

Calcutta High Court Dismisses ISF Plea Challenging Allotment Of 'Envelope' Symbol To TMC-D For Nandigram By-Poll

Case: ISF v ECI

Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 416

The Calcutta High Court has dismissed a plea filed by the Indian Secular Front (ISF) challenging the allotment of the “Envelope” election symbol to the Ritabrata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress Democratic (TMC-D) for the upcoming Nandigram Assembly by-election.

Calcutta High Court Directs Police Not To Permit Durga Puja At Residential Premises Without Flat Owners' Consent

Case: SRI KALLOL KANTI SAHA AND OTHERS VS. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND OTHERS

Citation: 2026 LIveLaw (Cal) 417

The Calcutta High Court has directed the police not to permit a club to organise Durga Puja at the common area of a G+3 residential building in Kolkata in the absence of permission from the Flat Owners Association or individual flat owners.

Calcutta High Court Refuses To Quash FIR Over Alleged Fake SC Certificate, Says No Express Bar On Police Complaint

Case: TUMPA BISWAS ALIAS TUMPA ROY VS. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND OTHERS

Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 418

The Calcutta High Court has refused to interfere with an FIR alleging fraudulent procurement and use of a Scheduled Caste certificate, holding that there was no express statutory bar on lodging a police complaint in such a case.

Calcutta High Court Directs Medical Exam Of BSF Aspirant's Burn Mark From Tattoo Removal, Cites Lack Of Guidelines

Case: Jhantu Sarkar - Versus - The Union of India & Ors.

Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 419

The Calcutta High Court has flagged that the recruitment medical guidelines prescribe healing periods for certain disabilities but are silent on the healing period for a superficial burn caused by removal of a tattoo, directing an independent Medical Board at AIIMS Kalyani to examine a BSF recruitment candidate on the issue.

Calcutta High Court Upholds Removal Of Govt Bank Officer Accused Of Diverting ₹40 Lakh From Account

Case: Sudip Mandal Vs. Bangiya Gramin Vikas Bank And Others

Citatiob: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 420

The Calcutta High Court has upheld the removal from service of an officer of Bangiya Gramin Vikas Bank who was found guilty in a departmental proceeding of diverting ₹40 lakh from a bank account, holding that the officer failed to establish that the disciplinary proceedings were conducted in wilful violation of an earlier court order.

Calcutta High Court Directs Disbursement Of Compensation To Heirs Of Inmates Who Died From Unnatural Causes In Custody

Case: In Re: The Court in its own motion

Citatiob: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 421

The Calcutta High Court has directed the Inspector General of Correctional Services, West Bengal, to expeditiously disburse compensation to the heirs and legal representatives of inmates who died unnatural deaths in correctional homes, based on the data collected by the State Legal Services Authority (SLSA).

Calcutta High Court Directs Insurer To Compensate 5-Year-Old's Accidental Death Despite Offending Driver's Fake Licence

Case: Soma Das And Another Vs. The Manager, Magma HDI General Insurance Company Limited And Another

Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 422

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.

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

Case: Gobinda Chandra Debnath Vs. The State of West Bengal & Ors.

Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 423

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.

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

Case: SRI SAYAN MONDAL -VS- THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL

Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 424

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.

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

Case: Shreyasi Dhang v State of WB

Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 425

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.

Non-Disclosure Of Prior Job Application By Newly Appointed Employee Can't Defeat Old Pension Scheme Benefit: Calcutta High Court

Case: Shri Erotu Kurma Rao Vs. Union Of India And Othors

Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 426

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).