West Bengal SIR & Judges' Gherao : Live Updates From Supreme Court

Order: The committee shall further decide whether all the appeals will be required to be filed in Kolkata or they can be entertained at other places also.

Order: regarding honorarium and the incidental expenses of the former judges, payment to be made without any delay

Order: The committee to be constituted immediately so that procedure can be notified tomorrow in order to expedite the disposal of appeals.

We are informed by the ECI that the venue of the appellate tribunals and the requisite infrastructure has been made available and the appellate tribunals are ready to function from the allocated premises

Order: It seems to us that in order to bring uniformity in the appellate procedure, it will be appropriate that it is formally prescribed. We request the Chief Justice of Calcutta HC to constitute a team of senior most judges to lay down the procedure to be followed by the appellate tribunals.

Naidu hands over speech given by CM Mamta Banerjee.

Mehta: A judicial officer was crying on camera saying "please take care of my children."

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta: We have something to say on destroying the democracy.

Senior Advocate DS Naidu for ECI: See the speech that was given. They said CRPF officers are coming to beat you

Divan: some sort of supplementary electoral roll will be necessary.

Sibal: This is about right to vote.

Divan: till date from 10th March there is no efficacious disposal. So far they have done a few cases. We should not completely negate the Tribunal exercise

Naidu: your lordships were not even inclined to have an appellate provision initially.

Senior Advocate DS Naidu for ECI: you lordships have been generous in extending all the limits. Judicial officers are examining and whoever is agrieved can file an appeal. They do take time. It is they who failed in convincing their officers

J Bagchi: in the case of West Bengal we have specifically required an independent adjudication by judicial persons and we have gone through the enormous efforts of these judicial officers

J Bagchi: appellate authorities will formulate procedure and natural justice is followed and the final order will take a month may even take 60 days. We cannot on that apprehension allow some people because they were earlier mapped

Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal: As an interim measure it can be