Compassionate Appointment Can't Be Rejected For Financial Reasons If Not Stated In The Original Order:Calcutta HC

A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court comprising Justice Madhuresh Prasad and Justice Prasenjit Biswas held that the rejection of a compassionate appointment claim cannot be based on financial stringency if that ground was not mentioned in the original rejection order or enquiry committee report. Background Facts The petitioner's father was an employee of the West Bengal Transport Corporation who died in service. The petitioner applied for compassionate appointment under the...

Calcutta High Court Declines To Hear Anticipatory Bail Plea By TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee's PA Sumit Roy

The Calcutta High Court on Friday declined to entertain the anticipatory bail plea filed by Sumit Roy, personal assistant to Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, holding that it could not ignore an earlier order passed by a coordinate Bench directing that the matter be placed before the regular Bench.Justice Saugata Bhattacharya released the matter and directed that it be placed before the appropriate Bench in terms of the order dated June 30.During the hearing, the Court referred to the...

LiveLaw Calcutta High Court Monthly Digest: June 2026

No 'Right To Visibility' Exists On Private AI Platforms: Calcutta High Court Refuses To Direct ChatGPT To Display IndiaMart LinksCase: Indiamart Inter Mesh Limited v. Open AI Inc. and Others Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Cal) 245The Calcutta High Court has dismissed IndiaMart's plea seeking interim directions against OpenAI, holding that a private business cannot compel ChatGPT to display...

Calcutta High Court Questions 'Hot Haste' In Freezing Three TMC Bank Accounts, Seeks Account Statement Before Deciding Interim Relief

The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday expressed concern over the speed with which the bank accounts of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) were frozen following the registration of an FIR, observing that the complaint appeared "omnibus" and did not contain specific allegations. However, the Court declined to grant immediate interim relief, directing the bank to place before it the corpus of the...

Denial Of Ration Benefits Due To SIR Deletion: Calcutta High Court Declines Interim Relief In PIL, Says No Aggrieved Person Has Objected

The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday declined to grant interim relief in a public interest litigation challenging the West Bengal government's decision to verify and delete Public Distribution System (PDS) beneficiaries based on the outcome of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, observing that no affected individual had yet approached the Court alleging deprivation...

Human Dignity Extends To Every Accused, State Must Prevent Egg-Throwing, Mob Violence: Calcutta High Court

Dignity and security that the law affords are not privileges conferred at the discretion of those in authority; they are rights inherent to every individual, regardless of station, circumstance or means, the court said.

Police Clearance Denied To Agniveer Aspirant Over SIR Deletion; Appellate Tribunal Gives Him Relief After Calcutta HC Nudge

An Agniveer aspirant whose Police Clearance Certificate (PCC) was withheld after his name was deleted from the electoral roll during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise has secured relief from the SIR Appellate Tribunal, paving the way for the processing of the certificate required for his appointment in the Indian Army.This comes days after the Calcutta High Court requested the...

West Bengal Assembly Passes Bills To Restructure OBC Reservation, Removes 77 Communities From List Following 2024 Calcutta HC Verdict

The West Bengal Legislative Assembly on Monday passed two Bills overhauling the State's Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservation framework by removing 77 communities from the OBC list and restructuring the reservation regime in line with the directions issued by the Calcutta High Court in 2024.The legislation amends both the West Bengal Backward Classes (Other than Scheduled Castes and...

Calcutta High Court Asks SIR Tribunal To Expeditiously Decide Agniveer Recruit's Appeal Over Voter Roll Deletion

The Calcutta High Court has directed the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) Appellate Tribunal at Cooch Behar to expeditiously decide the appeal of an Agniveer recruitment candidate whose name was deleted from the electoral roll during the SIR exercise, after noting that the State would issue his Police Clearance Certificate (PCC) only after the appeal is disposed of.Justice Bivas...

Calcutta High Court To Hear TMC Leader Atin Ghosh's Plea For Anticipatory Bail In Alleged Land Corruption Case

Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and former Deputy Mayor of Kolkata Atin Ghosh has approached the Calcutta High Court seeking anticipatory bail in connection with a land corruption case in which the Bidhannagar North Police Station has summoned both him and his daughter, Priyadarshini Ghosh.Apart from seeking anticipatory bail, Ghosh has also challenged the police action of issuing a summons...

Calcutta High Court Declines Relief To Abhishek Banerjee Against Magistrate's Order For Recording Voice Sample In 'DJ Remark' Case

The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday declined to entertain a criminal revision filed by Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee challenging a trial court's order directing the collection of his voice sample in connection with the CID's investigation into his alleged "DJ remark."Holding that the issue arose from the same FIR which is already pending before a coordinate bench in a writ...

Calcutta High Court Calls For Action-Taken Report On Incidents Of Egg-Pelting Against TMC Workers, MPs & MLAs

The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the West Bengal government to file a comprehensive report detailing the steps taken to prevent attacks on political workers while hearing a public interest litigation alleging assaults on MPs, MLAs and workers of the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC).A Division Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Partha Sarathi...