The Latest Breaking News from Calcutta High Court

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 · Apr 8, 2022

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 · Apr 8, 2022

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 · Apr 8, 2022

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 · Apr 5, 2022

West Bengal SSC recruitment scam roils Calcutta HC

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

The Hindu · Apr 4, 2022

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 · Apr 4, 2022

Begin probe into SSC recruitment scam, Calcutta HC tells CBI

The judge has specified that interrogation should start by midnight

The Hindu · Mar 31, 2022

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 Times of India · Mar 30, 2022

Calcutta HC dismisses Trinamool leader’s plea against CBI

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

The Hindu · Mar 29, 2022

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.

Dynamite News · Mar 26, 2022