Income Not Sufficient For Treatment & Reintegration: Calcutta High Court Directs Payment Of Further Compensation To Male Acid Attack Survivor

The Calcutta High Court has directed the State Legal Services Authority (SLSA) to consider and enhance the compensation awarded to a male acid attack survivor. Under the West Bengal Victim Compensation Scheme, the petitioner was paid Rs 3 lakh, which was the minimum stipulated amount.A single bench of Justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharya upon noting that the petitioner had credibly pointed out that...

Grouping In Tender Process Based On Intelligible Differentia; Can't Be Faulted Merely Because Bidders Convenience Not Suited: Calcutta HC

The Calcutta High Court has dismissed a plea filed by the bidder, a start-up, against a tender floated by Indian Oil Corporation Limited ('Indian Oil') for transportation and conversion of High-density Ammonium Nitrate ('HDAN') Melt into HDAN Solid alleging that the same was tailor-made for six big operators in the field and specifically to exclude start-ups. A single bench...

Calcutta High Court Stays Single Judge Order Directing Lawyer's Arrest For Alleged Criminal Contempt In Late Evening Hearing

The Calcutta High Court held a special late evening hearing at 8:30 pm yesterday (18.12.2023) to address the events that unfolded before a single bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay which directed the arrest of a lawyer from the courtroom for alleged criminal contempt when he cited a division-bench judgement which had modified the single-bench's order. Notably, the Calcutta High Court...

Calcutta High Court Bar Association Requests Withdrawal Of All Judicial Work From Judge Over Advocate's Arrest, Resolves To Not Enter His Courtroom

The Calcutta High Court Bar Association has passed a resolution whereby the members of the Bar Association have decided to unanimously refrain from entering the courtroom of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay unless the latter apologises for holding Advocate Prosenjit Mukherjee in criminal contempt, ordering him to be disrobed in open court and sent to civil prison under the custody of the...

Calcutta High Court Distributes 'Dragon Legal Speech Recognition Software' To Judicial Officers of WB & Andaman and Nicobar Islands

The Calcutta High Court has announced the distribution of Dragon Legal Speech Recognition Software to judicial officers of West Bengal and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The 'cutting-edge' software, enabled by artificial intelligence, aims to assist judicial officers in fulfilling their day-to-day roles even in the absence of support staff such as stenographers, by converting their spoken word...

'Input Tax Credit' Becomes Vested Right Only If The Conditions Are Fulfilled: Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court has held that the input tax credit (ITC) under Section 16(1) of the GST Act becomes a vested right only if the conditions to take it are fulfilled.The bench of Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya has observed that Section 16(2) does not appear to be a provision that allows input tax credit; rather, Section 16(1) is the enabling provision,...

Birla-Lodha Battle | 'Only Civil Courts Can Conclusively Decide Issues Of Title': Calcutta HC Allows H.V. Lodha To Continue As MP Birla Group Chairman

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday ruled in favour of Harsh Vardhan Lodha continuing as chairman of MP Birla Group and reportedly barred the administrators of Priyamvada Devi Birla's Estate from interfering with day-to-day operations of companies.More than 3 years after a Single Judge of the Calcutta High Court had passed an order directing removal of MP Birla Group Chairman, H.V. Lodha from...

State Bar Council's Opinion On Alleged Misconduct Doesn't Curtail Disciplinary Committee's Power To Examine Maintainability Of Complaint: Calcutta HC

The Calcutta High Court has recently held that in an alleged case of misconduct, the mere formation of opinion by a State Bar Council that it has reason to believe that the accused advocate may be guilty of professional or other misconduct does not necessarily curtail the powers of the Disciplinary Committee to deal with the issue of maintainability of the complaint.A single bench of...

Calcutta High Court Upholds Order Cancelling Appointment Of 94 Teachers Found Ineligible Under 2014 Eligibility Test

The Calcutta High Court has recently upheld its order cancelling the appointment letters of 94 teachers, who were found ineligible and underqualified under the Teachers Eligibility Test conducted in 2014.A single bench of Justice Amrita Sinha had earlier passed orders for cancellation of the appointment of the aforesaid teachers upon perusing a report by the West Bengal Board of Primary...

Cash For Jobs Scam | Abhishek Banerjee Submitted 5,500 Pages Of Documents During Investigation: ED Tells Calcutta High Court

On Tuesday, the Directorate of Enforcement ("ED"), which is investigating the multi-tier recruitment scam in West Bengal told the Calcutta High Court that it had investigated Leaps & Bounds, a company which was being investigated as a front for proceeds of the recruitment scam, as well as Banerjee who was CEO in the company, as well as his wife. A single bench of Justice Amrita Sinha,...

'One Fake Certificate Enough To Spoil System': Calcutta HC Calls For Inquiry Into Genuiness Of Caste Certificates Issued In 'Recent Past'

The Calcutta High Court has recently directed the Secretary, Backward Classes Welfare Department, Government of West Bengal, to issue appropriate circulars to all district magistrates, directing them to verify caste certificates issued in the recent past and to devise an SOP at the state level, for the DM to convey to the appropriate authorities. A division bench of Chief Justice TS...

To 'Read Up' A Provision Is To Flesh It Out And Fill In Words To Erase Discordance: Calcutta High Court Reiterates

The Calcutta High Court recently held that clause (d) to the Proviso to Rule 5(1) of the West Bengal Excise Rules, 2009, was unconstitutional since it exempted public limited companies from payment of license fees for "change in management," while levying the same from private limited companies.A single bench of Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya held that a mere change in the composition of the...