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18Apr By source belowNo Comments

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Murshidabad violence | HC no to NIA probe: ‘Centre free to order’

Refusing to order probe by National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the last week’s violence in Murshidabad district during a protest against the new Waqf law, the Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered the formation of a three-member committee for identification and rehabilitation of people displaced by the violence.A Division Bench of Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Raja Basu Chowdhury said that the prime responsibility was currently to restore and rehabilitate those who have been displaced during the arson and violence. The committee will comprise a member each from the National Human Rights Commission, the West Bengal State Human Rights Commission and State Legal Services Authority. Story continues below this ad The court also said the central forces should remain depl...

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18Apr By source belowNo Comments

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Had intel of escalation, so police were accordingly deployed: Govt to HC in Murshidabad violence case

In its report to the Calcutta High Court on last week’s violence in Jangipur in Murshidabad district during a protest against the newly enacted Waqf law, the West Bengal government stated that following the April 8 violence in Raghunathganj area, the administration had received intelligence report of possible escalation in situation on April 11 after the Friday prayers and had accordingly deployed a large contingent of police force at Sajur More in Suti area.In its 34-page report to the Division Bench of Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Raja Basu Chowdhury, the government stated that protests against the Waqf law by different outfits began from April 4 across Jangipur but they remained “peaceful and non-violent”. On the first day of violence on April 8, the government affidavit said a huge c...

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18Apr By source belowNo Comments

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Third arrest made in Murshidabad violence case: Priest ‘scared to come’, shradh of father-son duo could not be performed

The Das family in Murshidabad’s Samserganj area could not perform the shradh ceremony of the father and son killed in last Friday’s violence as the priest didn’t turn up “out of fear”. On April 11, Harogobindo Das (70) and his son Chandan (40) were killed by a mob at Jafrabad in Samsergunj area during the violence during the newly enacted Waqf law. “Today was the shradh ceremony. We had asked a purohit (priest). But he said he can’t come because it is a security issue,” Chitradeep Das, a relative of Harogobindo, said. Story continues below this ad “We arranged another purohit (priest). But he stays in Basudevpur, which is 5 km away. He said he can’t come because there is no security here. I went to the his house and got Gangajal. We have decided that when we feel secure, w...

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17Apr By source belowNo Comments

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Calcutta HC reserves order on extending CAPF stay in Murshidabad, state claims situation under control

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday reserved its order on the continuation of central forces in violence-hit Murshidabad district of West Bengal. The court suggested that a three-member panel, comprising one member each from the National Human Rights Commission, the West Bengal State Human Rights Commission and State Legal Services Authority, should visit the affected pockets of the district to oversee the restoration of peace and rehabilitation of people displaced due to the violence. A division bench of Justices Soumen Sen and Raja Basu Chowdhury heard a petition moved by the Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, who claimed that bomb blasts took place during communal riots in the Muslim-majority district and prayed that the National Investigation Agency (NIA)...

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16Apr By source belowNo Comments

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After court nod to Mothabari visit, Suvendu Adhikari moves HC to visit 2 areas of violence-hit Murshidabad

Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari Wednesday moved the Calcutta High Court seeking permission to visit the violence-affected Dhukiyan and Samshergunj areas in Murshidabad. The single bench of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh directed that the petition be placed before the division bench of Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam and Justice Chaitali Chatterjee as all the other matters related to the issue are placed there. “Tomorrow is the date for the PIL. Since reports will be filed before the division bench, the ground reality will be clear there,” said Justice Ghosh. During the hearing, Adhikari’s counsel had submitted, “Other political delegations were allowed but we weren’t allowed. A PIL was filed and moved for protection of life. I categorically plead for permission. Th...

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16Apr By source belowNo Comments

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Affected families and VHP move Calcutta HC for Central agency investigation into Murshidabad violence

On Wednesday, a Public Interest Litigation was filed to Calcutta High Court’s division bench of Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam and Justice Chaitali Chatterjee demanding a National Investigation Agency (NIA) investigation and shelter for those left homeless in the case of recent arson and violence in Murshidabad. According to the petitioner, over 300 families have been rendered homeless. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) also filed a PILto the bench on Thursday. Counsel Anindiya Sundar Das for the VHP submitted that they want an NIA investigation, a CBI investigation, and compensation from the State government for the affected families. Story continues below this ad Meanwhile, some of the families have moved a petition to Justice Tirthankar Ghosh’s bench. The counsel for the f...

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13Apr By source belowNo Comments

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Protests against Waqf law in Bengal: HC orders deployment of Central forces in Murshidabad, rules ‘Can’t turn a blind eye’

Stating that it “cannot turn a blind eye” to vandalism in parts of West Bengal, the Calcutta High Court on Saturday ordered the deployment of Central forces in the violence-hit district of Murshidabad where three people were killed and 15 police personnel injured after a protest against the amended Waqf law turned violent on Friday. A special bench comprising Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Raja Basu Chowdhury was constituted by Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam to urgently hear a petition filed by BJP MLA and Leader of Opposition in Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, seeking deployment of Central forces in the district. Calling the situation in Murshidabad “grave and volatile”, the Bench said in its order: “Action is to be taken against the culprits to arrest the atrocities committed on innocent citiz...

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12Apr By source belowNo Comments

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Tollywood’s filmmakers move Calcutta HC against federation of film technicians for ‘interfering in work’

Once again, Tollywood is in turmoil as Bidula Bhattacharjee, a young independent filmmaker, has moved Calcutta High Court against the industry’s federation of film technicians to “put a check” on the alleged interference of the federation in the work of directors.In the case, on April 3, Justice Amrita Sinha ordered the Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers of Eastern India, headed by Swarup Biswas, against “interfering with the independent functioning of the petitioner in performing work… the fundamental right to life and livelihood, and the right to carry on business.” The matter will next be heard on April 19. Bhattacharjee — the maker of Prem Amar 2 and Golper Mayajal — had initially filed the petition on her own, but it was later supported by filmmakers Sudeshna Roy and Subrata S...

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9Apr By source belowNo Comments

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WB school recruitment scam: CPI(ML) Liberation leader seeks President’s intervention

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya has written to President Droupadi Murmu over the Supreme Court’s decision to terminate nearly 26,000 teachers in West Bengal, urging her intervention to save the teachers. In a letter, a copy of which he shared on social media, Bhattacharya said the termination was a “collective punishment” for the systemic corruption in the recruitment process.ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO “The court and the government all accepted that the overwhelming majority of teachers now terminated had obtained their jobs by fair means, but now all of the 26,000 teachers who had to go through the tainted recruitment process have been stripped of their only source of secure and dignified living,” Bhattacharya said. St...

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9Apr By source belowNo Comments

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Bengal school Appointment ‘scam’: SC sets aside HC order for CBI probe into creation of supernumerary posts

THE SUPREME Court on Tuesday set aside the Calcutta High Court order directing a CBI probe into the Mamata Banerjee government’s decision to create supernumerary posts to accommodate about 25,000 teachers and non-teaching staff who lost their jobs following the court ruling their selection by the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) as illegal. The bench presided by Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, however, said the CBI probe into other aspects of the scam would continue. On April 3, the SC upheld the HC order that invalided the WBSSC’s 2016 appointment of more than 25,000 teachers and non-teaching staff, terming the entire selection process “tainted beyond resolution” and calling for a fresh selection process to fill the vacancies. However, the court said it will separately ...

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8Apr By source belowNo Comments

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After Ram Navami, Hindu outfit moves Calcutta High Court seeking permission for Hanuman Jayanti celebrations on Red Road

On Tuesday, the Hindu Seva Dal approached the Calcutta High Court seeking permission to hold a procession at the Red Road for Hanuman Jayanti. According to the petitioners’ counsel Mayukh Mukherjee, “The petitioner wants to hold a colourful procession on Red Road on April 12 to celebrate Hanuman Jayanti. But they have not received permission from the police so far.” Justice Tirthankar Ghosh has allowed the petition to be filed and the matter is likely to be heard on Wednesday. Story continues below this ad The counsel said, “The Hindu Seva Dal is planning to organise a grand procession and event at Red Road from 5 am to 11 am on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti.” It has been alleged that the Kolkata Police did not grant permission for this procession despite repeated reques...

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8Apr By source belowNo Comments

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Calcutta High Court grants LOP Suvendu Adhikari, BJP MLA permission to visit violence-hit Mothabari

On Tuesday, Justice Tirthankar Ghosh of the Calcutta High Court granted permission to Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari and BJP MLA Ashok Dinda to visit the violence-hit Mothabari area of West Bengal on April 11. Mayukh Mukherjee, counsel for the petitioners, submitted, “Only two persons, with security and three convoys including their driver, will require permission.” Recently, citing prohibitory orders, the police had stopped a BJP delegation under the leadership of state party president and Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar three kilometre from Mothabari in West Bengal’s Malda district, which witnessed a communal clash on March 27. Story continues below this ad Trouble began after a religious procession passed by a place of worship in Mothabari on the evening of March...

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8Apr By source belowNo Comments

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Bengal school appointments row: ‘Thought tainted candidates will face sacking, but we (honest) are being punished instead’

“They must give us a job… I am not a tainted candidate. I am the only breadwinner of my family. I have aged parents, a wife and a one-year-old child. What will I feed them now?” Surojit Malakar, a group D non-teaching staff member in Bardhaman, said as he tried to enter Netaji Indoor Stadium, the venue of CM Mamata Banerjee’s interaction with teachers affected by the Supreme Court’s judgment. Krishnendu Mukherjee, a teacher at Panchanantala High School in Katwa told The Indian Express, “Just for some tainted candidates, the entire panel has to suffer. Why will our jobs have to go too? How is it possible to give a re-examination?” “I thought that the tainted candidates would get removed, but we got punished,” said Tanaya Das, a teacher at the Serampore High School. Story continues belo...

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8Apr By source belowNo Comments

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Bengal school jobs scam: Sacking 17,206 teachers to hit schools hard, Board asks SC to let ‘untainted’ ones to stay

Stating that the teacher’s strength in West Bengal government schools is already “strained’, the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) on Monday moved a petition in the Supreme Court seeking modification of its April 3 order annulling appointments of over 25,000 school staff. In its plea, the state Board urged the top court to allow teachers “not found to be tainted” to continue their services until the end of the academic year or until the process of fresh appointments is concluded, whichever is earlier. While upholding a Calcutta High Court order on an alleged school jobs scam case being probed by the CBI, the Supreme Court termed the 2016 School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment process as “vitiated and tainted by fraud”. Story continues below this ad The ...

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6Apr By source belowNo Comments

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West Bengal teachers who lost jobs after Supreme Court judgment plan review petition

A section of the West Bengal schoolteachers who lost their jobs when the Supreme Court upheld the invalidation of 25,753 teacher appointments over irregularities in the recruitment process is planning to file a review petition as well as to meet President Droupadi Murmu with an appeal for reinstatement. The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar, which recently upheld a Calcutta High Court verdict annulling the recruitment conducted by School Service Commission, has also ordered the TMC government to initiate a fresh selection process. Meanwhile, those who lost their jobs because of alleged corruption in different SSC examinations have unitedly announced a Nabanna Abhiyan on April 21, which they will withdraw if Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee m...

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4Apr By source belowNo Comments

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Stick to route given by police: HC on Ram Navami procession

Dismissing a petition filed by the Ram Navami Celebration Committee, the Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed that the Ram Navami procession in Bankura Town will take the route proposed by the police, with a diversion of 100 m to avoid the mosque. Justice Tirthankar Ghosh said there was no problem in holding the procession on the route given by the state administration. During the hearing, Advocate General Kishore Dutt, appearing for the state, told the High Court: “We have given permission as per the route followed for the last three years.”   However, the petitioner’s counsel submitted that they have applied for a particular route, “but that has been denied for the past three years”. To this, Justice Ghosh remarked: “Where is the problem with the present route?” The state counsel sai...

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4Apr By source belowNo Comments

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Reconstitute Women’s Police Station: HC on custodial torture allegation

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the state administration to reconstitute the Paschim Medinipur Women’s Police Station in the wake of the allegations of torture of students who were detained during a protest on the Vidyasagar University campus. Raising several questions, Justice Tirthankar Ghosh told state Advocate General Kishore Dutt, “The police station is not in order. Tell the DG to take action. Otherwise, I will be forced to give strict orders.” He further observed, “I have seen the CCTV footage. There is evidence of torture. It is not okay to torture by detaining or arresting someone. Ask them to reorganise that police station.” On March 3, the women members of DSO and Students’ Federation of India (SFI) were allegedly assaulted by policemen during a protest on the Vidya...

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4Apr By source belowNo Comments

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Supreme Court order unexpected , the fight should go on: Soma Das who retained her job

Soma Das, the cancer survivor and the sole exception to the Calcutta High Court’s order nullifying the appointments of nearly 26,000 teachers and non-teaching staff, expressed her disappointment and empathy following the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the High Court’s verdict. While she considers herself “fortunate” to retain her position as a teacher of Bangla, Das feels that it’s injustice for thousands who are now facing sacking. “This is something that nobody was expecting,” a disheartened Soma Das told The Indian Express over the phone on Thursday after the Supreme Court’s order. “I don’t have words to express my sympathy for them. Our fight was for a corruption-free education system. Those who were deserving candidates have been fighting to get their jobs but have been deprived b...

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3Apr By source belowNo Comments

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VHP moves HC, seeks nod for Ram Navami rallies

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) approached the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday to seek permission to hold a Ram Navami procession in Bankura’s Saltora, on allegations that police did not give them permission. Justice Tirthankar Ghosh has given permission to file a case. According to the petitioner, the police have stated that there are other processions on the day of the proposed procession. Story continues below this ad This comes after another petition moved by the VHP in Justice Ghosh’s bench for permission for a Ram Navami rally at Mohanpur at Paschim Medinipur, and two more pleas filed by the Hindu outfit for permission for rallies in Howrah. Chandranath Das, VHP South Bengal secretary, said, “We have moved the court because the police are not giving us permission… b...

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1Apr By source belowNo Comments

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‘Calcutta High Court is not the dumping ground for tainted judges’: HC lawyers’ bodies

The Bar Library Club, the Bar Association and the Incorporated Law Society of the Calcutta High Court Tuesday observed a token protest in court regarding the transfer of Judges from Delhi High Court to the Calcutta High Court. Recently, the three High Court lawyers’ bodies had written a letter to Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, urging him to reconsider and recall the collegium’s recommendation to transfer Delhi High Court judge Dinesh Kumar Sharma to the Calcutta High Court. The decision taken by the Bar wings reads: “The members unanimously agreed that the present situation falls under the rarest of rare category as the High Court at Calcutta is being compelled to accept a Judge facing serious allegations of impropriety. It was also agreed that in the event the transfer is given eff...

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10Feb By source belowNo Comments

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Seeking an eye for an eye

Junior doctors marched towards the Raj Bhavan to demand justice in the rape-murder case of a trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. | Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI On February 7, the Calcutta High Court rejected the West Bengal government’s appeal seeking the death penalty for the man convicted for the rape and murder case of a woman at the R.G. Kar Medical Hospital in Kolkata last year. However, the Court admitted a separate appeal, also demanding the death penalty, by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which investigated the case.Faced with widespread and prolonged protests after the gruesome incident on August 9, 2024, the West Bengal government was the first to deman...

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