The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed Manoj Verma, commissioner of Kolkata Police (KP) to probe the incident of defacing judge’s photo and heckling lawyers inside the court premises.
The Supreme Court also accepted the observation of the Calcutta High Court that the entire panel had to be cancelled because of the failure on the part of the state government and the commission to segregate the "genuine" candidates from the "tainted" ones.
The new public interest litigations that will be filed at the Calcutta High Court in future will now be heard by the division bench of Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Smita Das.
On a politically charged Wednesday, while Leader of Opposition in Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari held a counter-programme in Contai, former BJP state president Dilip Ghosh took a divergent path by honouring an invitation from the state government and visiting the newly-inaugurated Jagannath temple in Digha.
The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday permitted Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, to hold a rally of "Sanatani" Hindus in East Midnapore district on the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya.
The matter, as scheduled, came up for hearing at Calcutta High Court’s division bench of Justice Debangshu Basak and Justice Shabbar Rashidi on Monday afternoon.
A day after allowing the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) chairman Siddhartha Majumder and his other colleagues to leave office on Wednesday, the agitating jobless teachers are still confused with the WBSSC’s reluctance to make the list of ‘tainted’ candidates public through its official website.
The rally will begin from the ancestral residence of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and culminate at the house of Dr Syama Prasad Mookherjee in Bhawanipur.
The division bench also observed that had the CAPF deployment been earlier, the situation would not have been so “grave” and “volatile”.
The two MPs who wrote letters to HM Shah are Jagannath Sarkar from the Ranaghat Lok Sabha constituency in the Nadia district and Jyotirmay Singh Mahato from the Purulia constituency.
