Calcutta High Court
[Aadhaar Regulations] Plea In Calcutta High Court Challenges Constitutional Validity Of Provision Over Sudden Deactivation Of Aadhaar Cards
A plea in Calcutta High Court has challenged the Constitutional validity of Regulation 28A of the Aadhaar Regulations, in light of the sudden deactivation of the Aadhaar Cards of certain citizens.The plea was heard by a division bench of Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharya.It was submitted by the petitioners that there were several affected residents whose Aadhar...
Calcutta HC Grants Interim Relief To Congress's Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury In Case Over Allegedly Spreading False Rumors About Attack On Rahul Gandhi's Convoy
The Calcutta High Court has granted interim relief to Congress State President Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in FIRs registered against him under Sections 153A (promoting enmity), 505(1)(b) and 505 (2) of the IPC. It was alleged that during Rahul Gandhi's yatra from Manipur to the West, the rear windshield of the leader had been damaged and that the petitioner had been spreading rumors that the...
[Sandeshkhali] Shahjahan Sheikh Was An Elected Representative, Should He Not Be Removed From Office? Calcutta High Court Enquires
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday took up the suo moto motion on the alleged sexual assault on women and land grabbing of tribals which took place in Sandeshkhali at the behest of prime accused Shahjahan Sheikh, a former member of the ruling TMC party, and elected Pradhan of the concerned Zilla Parishad. Earlier, a division bench presided over by Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam had directed...
Handover Shahjahan Sheikh To CBI: Calcutta High Court Tells West Bengal Govt
The Calcutta High Court today told the State government to immediately hand over Shahjahan Sheikh, prime accused in the attacks which occurred on ED officials at Sandeshkhali, to the CBI.Yesterday Live Law had reported on an order by a division bench presided over by Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam, which directed for the investigation into the attacks on ED officials to be handed over to the...
Calcutta High Court Allows Rectification Of Child's Birth Certificate To Replace Biological Father's Surname With Step-Father's Surname
The Calcutta High Court has recently allowed a plea moved by the mother of a minor child to replace the biological father's surname in the child's birth certificate with the name of the step-father.It was submitted that the child was born from her first marriage and that after the dissolution of that marriage, she remarried and moved out of the marital house to live with her present husband,...
Attack On ED Officials Was Unprecedented; State Police Underplayed Situation & Tried To Shield Accused Shahjahan Sheikh: Calcutta High Court
The Calcutta High Court has recently set aside a single bench order which constituted an SIT consisting of CBI and state police officials to probe the attack on ED officials in Sandeshkhali, whilst they were en route to the raid the residence of ration-scam accused Shahjahan Sheikh.A division bench of Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharya transferred the probe entirely...
[Attack On ED In West Bengal] Calcutta HC Transfers Probe To CBI, Directs State To Immediately Handover Custody Of Shahjahan Sheikh
The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday transferred an investigation to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) pertaining to the assault on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers who had gone to Sandeshkhali, West Bengal to raid the residence of ration-scam accused Shahjahan Sheikh.A division bench of Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharya set aside an earlier...
Calcutta High Court Judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay Resigns After Announcing His Plan To Join Politics
Calcutta High Court Judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay has sent his letter of resignation by post to President Droupadi Murmu, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, and Calcutta High Court Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam.He is likely to announce his future plans of transition into the realm of politics at 2 PM today, in a press conference scheduled to be held at his residence in Calcutta's Salt Lake.In...
Mere Silence Affecting Willingness Of Person To Enter Contract Not Fraud Unless It Amounts To Active Concealment: Calcutta HC
The Calcutta High Court has recently held that the mere silence of a party affecting the willingness of a person to enter into a contract is not fraud unless the circumstances of the case are such that it is the duty of the person keeping silence to speak or unless the silence is in itself equivalent to speech.A single bench of Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya referred to Section 17(2) of the...
Calcutta HC Modifies Judges' Roster, Cases Assigned To Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay Transferred To Different Bench
The Calcutta High Court has modified the roster of single-bench judges with effect from 5th March and transferred cases assigned to Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay to the single bench of Justice Arindam Mukherjee.Earlier, in light of the controversy due to Justice Gangopadhyay ignoring a division bench's stay order, the Chief Justice had re-assigned cases on primary education from his bench to...
Calcutta High Court Monthly Digest: February 2024
NOMINAL INDEXParesh Chandra Ganguly (represented by LRs) v CBI 2024 LiveLaw (Cal) 32Nilanjan Mitra v The State of West Bengal & Ors. 2024 LiveLaw (Cal) 33West Bengal Board of Primary Education & ors.- Versus - Md. Rafique & anr. 2024 LiveLaw (Cal) 34ANIMESH BHATTACHARYA v THE BAR ASSOCIATION HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA AND ORS. 2024 LiveLaw (Cal) 35Suresh Dhanuka vs Shahnaz Husain...
[Sandeshkhali] Calcutta High Court Reserves Verdict In Plea To Transfer Investigation Against Shahjahan Sheikh To CBI
The Calcutta High Court on Monday was told by ASG SV Raju that the State police, which had arrested Shahjahan Sheikh-prime accused in the unrest in Sandeshkhali, was attempting to frustrate the investigation since they were in collusion with the accused.Counsel prayed that the investigation into the attacks on the ED officials at Sandeshkhali, be transferred to the Central Bureau of...