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The Latest Breaking News from Calcutta High Court

CBI probe into Birbhum violence, Hanskhali rape in West Bengal gathers momentum

Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar alleges that the bureaucracy in State is politicised

The Hindu

Bengal rape victim’s father speaks of threats

Accused said he will kill the family.

The Hindu

Schools reopen in Kolkata, yellow-card entry for kids with no dues

KOLKATA: Ashok Hall School, Mahadevi Birla Shishu Vihar and G D Birla Centre for Education reopened their gates on Monday to those students whose parents have cleared their pending fees, following a two-day shutdown. While these students were given special identity cards, the rest stayed away from the schools, ensuring…

The Times of India

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SSC probe report: West Bengal panel, its appointments illegal

KOLKATA: A committee appointed by the Calcutta High Court to probe irregularities in school recruitment has found the five-member panel set up by the education department to oversee the appointments “not valid under the law” and has blamed the panel members for the illegal appointments in Group D posts.

The Times of India

Calcutta HC sets aside speaker’s ruling on Mukul plea

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court on Monday set aside Bengal assembly speaker Biman Banerjee’s ruling that Krishnanagar Uttar representative and Public Accounts Committee chairman Mukul Roy was a BJP MLA. The court set a four-week time frame for the speaker to decide on Mukul’s disqualification as member/chairman of PAC.

The Times of India

No vicarious liability on state for judicial actions: Calcutta high court

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court on Monday dismissed a Rs 100-crore compensation claim against the Bengal government for vicarious liability, holding it responsible in a case of alleged defamation against a high court judge. “There is no master-servant relationship between the State and a High Court Judge, and accordingly, there is…

The Times of India

Calcutta HC hands over probe into Bogtui neta murder to CBI

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court handed over the Bogtui upapradhan murder investigation to CBI more than a fortnight after Bhadu Sheikh was killed by motorbike-borne miscreants on March 23.

The Times of India

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Trial courts can give life till death only in rape cases, says Calcutta HC

KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court has directed all trial court judges to stop the practice of sentencing murder convicts to life imprisonment till death, unless in heinous rape and gangrape cases in which law provides for such sentences. It said such orders can be misinterpreted that the sentences cannot be…

The Times of India

Grill SSC ex-adviser for making 'false statements': Calcutta HC to CBI

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court ordered fresh interrogation of West Bengal School Service Commission's former adviser Santi Prasad Sinha after the court found him to have made "deliberate false statements" in court regarding alleged illegal appointments in state-aided schools.

The Times of India

Kolkata: Fee hike needed, say schools. First talk to us, say guardians

KOLKATA: The fee dispute, in which Kolkata schools and guardians have been locked ever since had campuses closed for the pandemic, seemed to reach the boiling point with the indefinite shutdown of G D Birla Centre for Education at Regent Park, Ashok Hall Girls’ Higher Secondary School at Minto Park…

The Times of India

Birbhum violence | Calcutta High Court takes on record CBI’s preliminary report

It reserves order in plea for probe into murder of deputy gram pradhan

The Hindu

Probe recruitment of teachers, Calcutta HC directs CBI

Agency has free hand to interrogate anyone, says judge

The Hindu

TMC forms Jhalda civic board as Congress hits streets

The development comes at a time when people of the municipality located in the Purulia district are organising sustained protests over the murder of Kandu.

The Hindu

West Bengal SSC recruitment scam roils Calcutta HC

Several division benches recuse themsleves from hearing plea amid on-going CBI probe

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Calcutta High Court asks CBI to probe Congress councillor’s murder

The agency has been told to file its final report before the Court within a month

The Hindu

Begin probe into SSC recruitment scam, Calcutta HC tells CBI

The judge has specified that interrogation should start by midnight

The Times of India

Calcutta HC judge questions division bench stay on his orders

KOLKATA: A Calcutta High Court judge on Wednesday complained about a series of stay orders by a division bench on his orders relating to alleged irregularities in recruitment of teachers in state-run schools.

The Hindu

Calcutta HC dismisses Trinamool leader’s plea against CBI

Anubrata Mondal has objected to the investigating agency’s notice in a cattle smuggling case

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Birbhum violence: 15-member CBI team with CFSL experts reaches Rampurhat village to probe case

After the Calcutta High Court ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to take over the Birbhum violence case, a 15-member team of the Central agency reached the crime scene in Rampurhat on Saturday to probe the case.

The Hindu

Bengal’s violent politics of area domination

Eight people were burnt to death in a village in the State’s Birbhum district on March 21, as a retaliation to the killing of a local leader. What makes West Bengal so susceptible to vendetta politics and deadly violence? Why are factional feuds on the rise? Shiv Sahay Singh reports…

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Daily Dose Ep 1003: CBI to probe Birbhum case, Adityanath takes oath

Tanishka Sodhi brings you the news from the Calcutta High Court, New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Ukraine.

The Hindu

Birbhum deaths | CBI takes over probe after Calcutta High Court order

No progress in investigation by State, says court

The Hindu

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Birbhum violence | Bengal submits report to Calcutta High Court

Division Bench reserves order on probe by CBI into the matter.

The Hindu

Birbhum killings | Calcutta HC asks Delhi CFSL to collect samples from site of incident, orders Govt to file report

Kolkata The Calcutta High Court on March 23 directed CFSL Delhi to immediately collect necessary mat

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