Cash-For-Jobs Scam: Calcutta High Court Refuses To Quash ECIR Against TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, But Orders ED To Not Take Coercive Steps

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the Enforcement Directorate (“ED”) to not initiate any coercive action against TMC leader and MP Abhishek Banerjee pursuant to ECIR (Enforcement Case Information Report)II/19/2022 filed by the ED, accusing him in the ‘Teacher-recruitment scam.’However, it refused to the quash the ECIR itself. A single-judge bench of Justice Tirthankar...

Calcutta High Court Directs Post Master General To Release MIS Dues Pending For Almost 15 Yrs

The Calcutta High Court has directed the Chief Postmaster General to release sum of Rs 50,000 including a bonus of Rs 5,000 along with interest of 6% p.a. from the date of maturity of the petitioner’s Monthly-Investment-Scheme (“MIS”) account at the Bhadrakali Post Office.A single-bench of Justice Shekhar B Saraf held:The petitioner states she is being deprived of her savings due to...

Citing ‘Lackadaisical Attitude’ Of West Bengal CID, High Court Upholds Transfer Of Money Laundering Probe Against Co-op Society To CBI, ED

The Calcutta High Court has recently upheld the order of a single-judge which transferred to the CBI, an ongoing probe into allegations of money laundering by the functionaries Alipurduar Mohila Samabay Rindan Samity Limited, a cooperative society. Petitioners, who were members of the society had approached the Court alleging that they had deposited money into the society, which was...

Calcutta HC Stays Order For Formation Of “High-Level Enquiry Committee” To Probe Collusion Among Railway Officials In Obtaining Arbitral Award

The Calcutta High Court has partially stayed an order of a single-bench which directed the formation of a “multi-member high level enquiry committee” to look into and furnish a report on alleged collusion between railway officials in obtaining an arbitral award in favour of the South-Eastern Railways. A division-bench of Justice IP Mukherji and Justice Biswaroop Chowdhury held that...

Calcutta High Court Denies Relief To Bank Manager Accused Of ‘Threatening’ Employee Who Complained Of Illegal Termination

The Calcutta High Court has refused to quash criminal proceedings against a Branch Manager of Standard Chartered bank who had been accused u/s 506 (criminal intimidation) and 509 (outraging modesty of a woman) of the IPC for allegedly threatening an employee who had approached the Labour forum against illegal termination of service.Complainant submitted that the petitioner had threatened her...

Probing Money-Trail Linking Bengali Film Industry To ‘Cash-For-Jobs’ Scam: Enforcement Directorate Tells Calcutta High Court

The Enforcement Directorate today informed the Calcutta High Court that it has begun probing the alleged links between the Bengali film industry and the teacher and municipal recruitment cash-for-jobs scam allegedly involving various high-ranking state functionaries.DSG Dhiraj Trivedi appearing for the ED submitted that one person from the industry has been linked with a money-trail to...

'Lawyers Are Not For Sale': Special Officer In Calcutta HC Claims He Was Offered Bribe By School Being Probed For Misrepresenting Affiliation

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday continued hearing a plea by parents of students scheduled to appear for their ICSE board exams in 2024, complaining of non-registration of their wards with the Council due to lapses by St Augustine’s Day School’s authorities.On an earlier occasion, a single-bench of Justice Biswajit Basu had expressed severe condemnation of the school’s...

TET Candidate Misspells ‘Durga’ In Court, Calcutta High Court Finds Her To Be Unfit To Be A Teacher, Dismisses Her Plea

The Calcutta High Court has recently dismissed a challenge against the Teachers Entrance Test (“TET”) 2014, by a candidate who claimed that she was not selected after the interview, even after allegedly scoring high marks. In dismissing the petitioner’s plea after perusing video footage of her interview, bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay observed: With such sense of spelling a...

Calcutta High Court Issues Guidelines For ‘Rally’ By About 600 Govt Job Aspirants Who Were Denied Group-D Appointments

The Calcutta High Court has allowed a ‘rally’ to be organised by job aspirants on 27th September, who were denied appointments as Group-D employees under the Government of West Bengal, despite having requisite qualifications. A single bench of Justice Jay Sengupta, while allowing the plea, directed the petitioners to hold such a procession, along the designated route, until 5pm, and...

Calcutta High Court Directs Police Commissioner To Monitor Probe Into Student's Death After Falling From School Building

The Calcutta High Court has directed the city’s Commissioner of Police, Vineet Goyal to monitor an ongoing probe into the death of a 16 year old, class 10 student who died after falling from the fifth-floor balcony of his school on September 3rd.The deceased’s father had lodged a murder case against the principal, vice-principal and two teachers of the Silver Point High School. Stating...

Unnecessary Litigation At Cost To Public Exchequer Should Be Avoided: Calcutta High Court Criticises Aided Rabindra Bharati University

In a scathing verdict on the state-aided Rabindra Bharati University, the Calcutta High Court has expressed dismay and distress over the University’s insistence on engaging in ‘unnecessary’ litigation even though a Division-bench had warned them against doing so. A single-bench of Justice Kaushik Chanda observed:This Court is surprised that a State-aided university, at the cost of...

Calcutta High Court Seeks Report On Alleged Police Inaction In Case Over Rape Of 10-Yr-Old Visually-Impaired Child At Children’s Home

The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the State to file a status report in a plea concerning the rape of a ten year-old visually-impaired girl at a blind-school and children’s home in Haridevpur, on the 8th of September. Advocate-petitioner appearing in person, submitted that in spite of serious allegations being made against the alleged perpetrators, the local police had failed...