The Calcutta High Court recently held that mosquitoes are the silent, insidious foes that may be found all over India, and hence a mosquito bite cannot be considered an ‘accident’ for the... Read more »
Justice TS Sivagnanam today took oath as the new Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court. Governor CV Ananda Bose administered the oath. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was also present at the swearing-in... Read more »
The Calcutta High Court has recently put the eviction notice issued by Visva Bharati to Amartya Sen on hold until a district court decides on the stay application filed by the Nobel... Read more »
The Union Ministry of Law and Justice recently notified the transfer of Justice VM Velumani from the Madras High Court to the Calcutta High Court. “In exercise of the power conferred by... Read more »
The Calcutta High Court observed that the violence and use of explosives have become so frequent in religious and political processions. The court transferred the probe to the National Investigation Agency (NIA)... Read more »
The Calcutta High Court today directed West Bengal police to file a progress report on its probe into the unnatural death of a minor girl at Kaliaganj in the Uttar Dinajpur district.... Read more »
The Calcutta High Court today disposed of a plea seeking action against additional public prosecutors (APPs) who were participating in strikes and restraining litigants, clerks, and lawyers from appearing in a district... Read more »
The Calcutta High Court has recently stayed First Information Report (FIR) lodged against a TV journalist booked for trying to “polarise” the situation in the State by making derogatory speeches against the... Read more »
The Calcutta High Court has recently commuted the death penalty of a man convicted for the murder of a 1½-year-old child and the child’s mother. The judgment passed by the Bench of... Read more »
The Calcutta High Court recently ordered YouTube and other social media platforms to take down or block public access to a video of popular content creator Dhruv Rathee in which he has... Read more »