The High Court noted that the company could neither produce any witness nor show any call records to substantiate their charge that the man was in touch with a rival company.
The victim's father claimed that he firmly believes that other persons were present along with Sanjay Roy, who has been convicted and sentenced to life by the trial court for the rape and murder of the doctor on August 9 last year.
On Monday, the HC granted permission to three advocates to file separate PILs over the alleged gang rape of a law student in her college.
Allowing the Centre to continue its enquiry into the allegations of irregularities in some districts of the state, a division bench presided by Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam directed that the scheme be implemented prospectively with effect from August 1.
The petitioner raised the issue of foreign nationals illegally obtaining Indian citizenship and participating in the electoral process, claiming that it is the responsibility of the ECI to ensure complete verification of citizenship.
A single judge had of the Calcutta High Court restrained BJP from publishing advertisements against TMC for violation of MCC. The saffron party had approached a division bench of the Calcutta HC against this order, however the division bench refused to interfere with it. BJP has challenged the division bench's order, which upheld the single judge's order.
“Identification of the classes in the said community as OBCs for electoral gains would leave them at the mercy of the concerned political establishment and may defeat and deny other rights,” the judgement said.
Shortly after, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee announced that she would not accept the Calcutta HC's decision to scrap the OBC status of several classes in the state
Judge Chitta Ranjan Dash disclosed that he was and still is a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) upon his retirement from the Calcutta high court on Monday.
The apex court, however, permitted CBI to continue investigating more on the alleged scam, but it cannot take any coercive action. The case will now come up for hearing on July 16.
Many lawyers who appeared for various parties argued that the Calcutta HC had gone beyond its scope of the case by ordering termination of the these teachers
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While directing a section of people who had been hired illegally to refund money paid as salary within four weeks, a two-judge bench also ordered the board to conduct a fresh round of recruitment.
The agency has created the e-mail ID in compliance with the orders of the Calcutta High Court passed on Wednesday.
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Chitta Ranjan Dash, who retired as a judge of Calcutta HC on May 20, said he was 'ready to go back' to RSS if they call him for any assistance or for any work that he was capable of doing
Justice Gangopadhyay said he will submit his resignation to the President of India in the first hour on Tuesday, with copies sent to the Chief Justice of India and the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court.
The court also asked the registry department to issue a public notice about the development as Sheikh Shahjahan is untraceable.
On January 27, the SC stayed proceedings at the Calcutta High Court relating to the alleged medical college admission scam.
The five judge bench of the apex court led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud further stayed the order of the single judge of Calcutta High Court ordering a CBI probe into the alleged scam. The bench has issued notice to the State of West Bengal and the original petitioner in the case.
The ED has stated that three of its officers were injured and their belongings were "looted" in an attack on them at Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district when they went to search the premises of Trinamool Congress leader Shajahan Sheikh.
After hearing petitions of opposition leaders for an extension of the date for filing nominations and deployment of central forces for the July 8 polls, the court had on June 9 observed that the time given for filing papers is prima facie inadequate.
The court said it will be appropriate if the CBI conducts the probe since it is investigating other cases of alleged illegal recruitments in West Bengal government-sponsored and aided schools on orders of another bench of the high court.
The apex court has asked the high court to reconsider the case after analysing the reports of the West Bengal police on the action taken in the case
Calcutta High Court judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay recently hinted that he was going to resign and join politics.