The Calcutta High Court has recently refused to grant an interim order to Trinamool Congress (TMC) general secretary Abhishek Banerjee from actions by the central agencies over alleged irregularities in teachers’ recruitment... Read more »
The Calcutta High Court recently cancelled the appointment of 36,000 “untrained” primary school teachers hired by the West Bengal Board of Primary Education in 2016. The single-judge bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay... Read more »
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 »