Calcutta High Court
Calcutta High Court Quashes Criminal Case Against WBFC Official Visiting Borrower's House For Loan Recovery, Calls It Abuse Of Process
The Calcutta High Court has quashed criminal proceedings against a senior retired official of the West Bengal Financial Corporation (WBFC), holding that continuation of the case would amount to a gross abuse of the process of law. The Court found that the FIR and subsequent charge-sheet, arising out of an alleged incident of trespass, criminal intimidation and outraging modesty, were lodged with an ulterior motive to stall loan recovery proceedings initiated by WBFC.Justice Chaitali Chatterjee...
Excessive Sweating Of Palm Not Grounds To Declare Candidate Medically Unfit For Appointment In CAPF: Calcutta High Court
The Calcutta High Court has held that palmar hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating of palms) is not a valid ground to declare a candidate medically unfit for appointment as Constable (G.D.) in the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs). The Court observed that the recruitment authorities failed to demonstrate any specific provision under the applicable medical guidelines which disqualifies a candidate on account of palmar hyperhidrosis.Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya noted that Clause 6(16) of the...
'Will Complete Installation Of CCTV Cameras By February 24': Jadavpur University Tells Calcutta High Court
Jadavpur University on Wednesday informed the Calcutta High Court that CCTV cameras on its campus would be installed by Webel Technologies in the next 17 days. Accordingly, the University undertook before a division bench of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen that the installation would be completed before the next date of hearing on February 24.Counsel for the...
Calcutta High Court Upholds ₹3.56 Lakh Compensation To Family Of Railway Contractor's Worker Killed After Being Hit By Train
The Calcutta High Court has dismissed an appeal by the Eastern Railway challenging a compensation award to the family of a worker who died in a workplace accident. The judgment was delivered by Justice Biswaroop Chowdhury.The case arose from an accident on December 23, 2006, in which Allarkha Mirja, a worker employed through a contractor, was fatally struck by the 2509 up...
Providing Public Utility Is Fiduciary Trust, Not Administrative High-Handedness: Calcutta HC Quashes WBSEDCL's Excess Electricity Bills
The Calcutta High Court has held that the West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd. (WBSEDCL) cannot recover a supplemental electricity bill of Rs. 55.8 lakh from Jyotish Chandra Rice Mill. A division bench of Justices Rajarshi Bharadwaj and Uday Kumar found that the demand was based on an unproven “polarity reversal” in the transformer and speculative average billing,...
Insurance Company Cannot Recover Compensation Without Hearing Vehicle Owner On Alleged Policy Violation: Calcutta High Court
The Calcutta High Court recently ruled that a motor insurance company cannot recover compensation from a vehicle owner without giving them an opportunity to be heard regarding alleged violations of the insurance policy. The judgment was delivered by Justice Biswaroop Chowdhury on February 4, 2026, in F.M.A. 1003 of 2025, involving National Insurance Co. Ltd. vs. Lirasa Bibi & Anr.The...
Calcutta High Court Quashes Criminal Proceedings Against Daily-Wage Labourer In ₹15.96 Lakh Cash Seizure Case Over Theft Allegation
The Calcutta High Court recently quashed the criminal proceedings against Sk. Enamul Hossain, a daily-wage labourer, in a case registered by Datan Police Station, Paschim Medinipur under Sections 379/411/34 IPC for alleged possession of stolen cash amounting to Rs. 15,96,000/-.The petitioner had been arrested after the cash was found in a Bolero vehicle, but he claimed that the money was...
Calcutta High Court Refuses To Quash Alleged ₹85 Lakh Bitcoin Fraud Case; Allows Further Investigation By Police
The Calcutta High Court has dismissed a petition seeking quashing of criminal proceedings in a cyber fraud case involving alleged inducement to invest in bitcoin trading, holding that an order directing further investigation after submission of a final report does not suffer from illegality and that proceedings cannot be quashed at a premature stage based on mere apprehension. Justice...
'Encroachers On Road Outside Port Trust Hospital Cannot Claim Protection Under Public Premises Act': Calcutta High Court Upholds Eviction
In a judgment delivered on February 4, 2026, a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court, comprising Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen, dismissed an intra-Court appeal filed by Chandeswhwar Shaw and others challenging the eviction order passed in WPA 15989 of 2024. The appellants had sought to overturn an order of a Single Bench dated June 20, 2024, which had granted...
Calcutta High Court Refuses To Quash Criminal Case Over Alleged Illegal Filling Of Ponds For University Project
The Calcutta High Court has dismissed a criminal revisional application seeking quashing of criminal proceedings relating to the alleged illegal filling up of water bodies and violation of land use laws in connection with a proposed university project at the Ramkrishna Vivekananda Mission campus. Justice Chaitali Chatterjee Das held that the allegations raised disputed questions of fact...
'Stale' Industrial Dispute Raised After 13 Years Cannot Be Revived: Calcutta High Court Dismisses Writ Against Refusal Of Reference
The Calcutta High Court has dismissed a writ petition challenging the refusal of the Central Government to refer an industrial dispute for adjudication, holding that an industrial dispute raised after an inordinate and unexplained delay cannot be revived merely on the strength of a failure report under Section 12(4) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.Justice Ajay Kumar Gupta was hearing...
Calcutta High Court Upholds Life Sentence In Double Murder-Dacoity Case
The Calcutta High Court bench of Justice Debangsu Basak and Justice Md. Shabbar Rashidi has dismissed three connected criminal appeals and upheld the conviction and sentence of the appellants for offences of dacoity with murder arising out of the brutal killing of two women at village Kandra, District Burdwan, on 1 October 2011. The appeals arose from a common judgment of conviction dated...