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Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday asked the Union ministry of home affairs to submit a report on the recent deportation of six people, including children, to Bangladesh by the Delhi Police. The court set a deadline of Wednesday and also asked the Bengal chief secretary to get in touch with his Delhi counterpart and submit a report.The directive followed two habeas corpus writs that came up for hearing before the bench of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Reetobroto Kumar Mitra on Fr ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 11 (PTI) The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the Superintendent of Police of Birbhum district to virtually appear before the National Commission for Women (NCW) on July 14 in relation to TMC leader Anubrata Mondal's alleged offending language in a telephonic conversation with a police officer. Hearing a petition by the SP challenging summons to him by the NCW, Justice Tirthankar Ghosh directed that all the documents asked for by the commission be sent to it electronically. ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 11 (PTI) Taking up two habeas corpus petitions alleging illegal detention of migrant workers from West Bengal in Delhi, the Calcutta High Court Friday directed the administration in the northern state to clarify whether they are under detention. The petitioners, who are relatives of those allegedly detained, also sought direction to the authorities concerned for their release and production before the court. It was claimed in the two petitions that Sweety Bibi, Kurban Sheikh, thei ...Read More >
West Bengal: Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Odisha government of illegally detaining migrant workers Robiul Sheikh and Mohir Munshi from her constituency Krishnanagar, despite their documents being verified, reportedly because their phones contained Bangladeshi numbers. In a strongly-worded video posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday, July 11, she called the act "extra-constitutional" and threatened legal action against the state authorities. S ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 10 (ANI): The West Bengal government on Thursday submitted a sealed progress report on the alleged rape of a 24-year-old Law student to the Calcutta High Court. The state also produced the case diary before a division bench comprising Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Smita Das De, which reviewed the victim's statement under Section 183 of the Bharatiya Nyay Samhita (BNS) and the medical records. The court directed that a copy of the progress report be handed t ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 10 (ANI): The West Bengal government on Thursday submitted a sealed progress report on the alleged rape of a 24-year-old Law student to the Calcutta High Court. The state also produced the case diary before a division bench comprising Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Smita Das De, which reviewed the victim statement under Section 183 of the Bharatiya Nyay Samhita (BNS) and the medical records. The court directed that a copy of the progress report be handed to ...Read More >
Kolkata: BJP-governed states were treating Bengalis as infiltrators in their own country, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday, adding: "Speaking Bengali does not make one a Bangladeshi."Reacting sharply to fresh reports that Delhi Police had snapped water and electricity connections to Vasant Kunj's Jai Hind Colony, where a large number of Bengali-speaking migrants live, Banerjee said: "How can we claim to be a democratic republic if the basic rights to shelter, water and electricity are being t ...Read More >
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday refused to grant relief to candidates seeking age relaxation for the fresh recruitment process by West Bengal Central School Service Commission (WBSSC).These candidates claimed to be of eligible age in 2022 for the first SLST; however, since the recruitment process was postponed, they are now over 40 years old.Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya said the Supreme Court judgment had specified that age relaxation would only be for untainted candidates and those wi ...Read More >
Kolkata, July 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Calcutta High Court on Thursday upheld an earlier order of a Single-Judge Bench of the same court, directing exclusion of 'tainted' candidates from the fresh selection process initiated by the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) to fill teaching posts lying vacant following a Supreme Court order in April, cancelling 25,753 jobs. Earlier this week, the Calcutta High Court's Single-Judge Bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharya stated that the candidat ...Read More >
KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the West Bengal Chief Secretary to appoint a nodal officer to get in touch with the authorities in Odisha and take necessary steps to ensure release of Bengali speaking migrant workers from the state who were detained there. A division bench of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Reetobroto Mitra of the Calcutta High Court also directed the West Bengal Government to act immediately and submit a report to the court in this regard on Mon ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 10 (PTI) The West Bengal government on Thursday submitted a progress report before the Calcutta High Court on the investigation by the Kolkata Police into the alleged gang rape of a student in a law college here. The court also looked into the case diary of the police in the alleged gang rape of a student by an alumnus and two seniors on South Calcutta Law College campus. The progress report on the investigation was submitted in a sealed envelope. A division bench presided by Jus ...Read More >
Kolkata: State school service commission (SSC) and Bengal govt on Wednesday argued against Calcutta High Court's single bench order barring 1,801 "tainted" candidates from participating in the fresh recruitment process. SSC told a division bench that these candidates could not be subjected to "double jeopardy".The last date for applications is July 14. SSC's lawyer and senior MP Kalyan Banerjee argued in the division bench of Justices Soumen Sen and Smita Das De that once Supreme Court scrapped ...Read More >
Kolkata: Multiple petitions have been filed in the Calcutta High Court urging its immediate intervention after more than 200 Bengali-speaking migrants from Bengal were allegedly tagged 'Bangladeshis' and detained in Odisha. Bengal Police has already sent verification reports of multiple detainees to their Odisha counterparts."This is heading into dangerous territory," Trinamool spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said on Wednesday. "Bengalis will speak Bengali. Is that a crime? And why is this happening on ...Read More >
Agartala (Tripura) [India], July 10 (ANI): A large-scale state-level mock exercise simulating flood and landslide scenarios was successfully conducted across Tripura with special emphasis on West Tripura District by the District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) under the supervision of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). Vishal Kumar, District Magistrate (DM) of West Tripura, addressed the media following the drill, and highlighted that rescue operations were carried out simu ...Read More >
Kolkata: Six Birbhum residents, including three minors, who worked as ragpickers in Delhi, were labelled 'Bangladeshi' and nabbed by police on June 18 and pushed into Bangladesh by BSF on June 26, two habeas corpus petitions filed in Calcutta High Court alleged. HC was likely to take up the petitions on Friday, Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP and state migrant workers' welfare board chairperson Samirul Islam said. The pleas said two families of migrant workers were picked up by Delhi Police during an " ...Read More >
Kolkata: The alleged detention and deportation of Indian citizens from West Bengal is snowballing into a serious concern, with the state government receiving fresh complaints about the alleged detention of 227 migrant workers from Bengal in Jharsuguda in Odisha after being labelled as 'Bangladeshis'. Meanwhile, two habeas corpus petitions have been filed in the Calcutta High Court against the Delhi Police over the illegal detention and deportation of a couple from Murarai in Birbhum, along with ...Read More >
Kolkata: The alleged detention and deportation of Indian citizens from Bengal is snowballing into a serious concern with the Bengal government receiving fresh complaints about the alleged detention of 227 migrant workers from Bengal in Jharsuguda in Odisha, after being labelled as 'Bangladeshis'. Meanwhile, two habeas corpus petitions have been filed in the Calcutta High Court against the Delhi Police over the illegal detention and deportation of a couple from Murarai in Birbhum, along with thei ...Read More >
Kolkata, July 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) Pampa Mondal, the widow of one of the three Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers, who were killed at Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal in 2019, has written a letter to the Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Praveen Sood alleging threat to her life and hence seeking urgent security. The CBI had recently taken over the investigation concerning the murder of three BJP workers at Sandeshkhali, namely Pradip Mondal, Debdas Monda ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 9 (PTI) The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes has refused to share information on the impact of a proposed mega infrastructure project on Great Nicobar Island, the southernmost part of Indian territory, on primitive tribal groups and the relocation of villages from tiger reserves, citing parliamentary privilege and other legal exemptions. This PTI correspondent filed an RTI application on April 3 this year, requesting minutes of all commission meetings held since January 1 ...Read More >
Kolkata: School Service Commission and Bengal govt on Tuesday moved a Calcutta High Court division bench, challenging a single judge's order to not allow candidates deemed "tainted" to participate in the fresh recruitment process for 35,726 vacancies. Other candidates have moved the division bench on two demands -- marks allotment and age relaxation.The bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya on Monday refused to allow "tainted candidates" to take part, referring to Supreme Court's observation st ...Read More >
Kolkata: Birbhum SP Amandeep on Tuesday moved Calcutta High Court, seeking quashing of NCW's direction to appear before it in Delhi on July 14 with the case diary on Trinamool strongman Anubrata Mondal's alleged verbal abuse of Bolpur police station's inspector in charge.Granting permission to file the application, Justice Tirthankar Ghosh said the matter would be taken up on Wednesday, provided the SP served a copy of the petition to the parties involved.The SP's lawyer said NCW was interfering ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 8 (PTI) The West Bengal government is preparing a standard operating procedure (SOP) to abide by the Calcutta High Court order about closing student union rooms in state-run colleges and universities, Education Minister Bratya Basu said on Tuesday. The high court on July 3 ordered that student union rooms in colleges and universities across West Bengal, where students' body elections are pending, should remain closed. Also Read | PM Modi in Brasilia: PM Narendra Modi Receives Gran ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 8 (PTI) The West Bengal government is preparing a standard operating procedure (SOP) to abide by the Calcutta High Court order about closing student union rooms in state-run colleges and universities, Education Minister Bratya Basu said on Tuesday. The high court on July 3 ordered that student union rooms in colleges and universities across West Bengal, where students' body elections are pending, should remain closed. The order came following the alleged gang rape of a first-year ...Read More >
Kolkata, July 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) The West Bengal government and the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) on Tuesday separately challenged the order of the Calcutta High Court's single-judge bench directing the commission to exclude candidates already identified as "tainted" from the fresh recruitment process for filling up teaching posts in state-run schools lying vacant following a Supreme Court order cancelling 25,753 jobs in April this year. On Monday, the single-judge bench of Just ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 8 (ANI): The BJP's fact-finding team constituted to inquire into the case of alleged gangrape of a law college student in Kolkata submitted its report to party National President JP Nadda on Tuesday. Upon receiving the report, Nadda said that this report exposes the 'lawlessness' in West Bengal. 'This report exposes the utter state of lawlessness in West Bengal and the state government's alarming insensitivity towards women's safety. From Sandeshkhali to RG Kar Hospital ...Read More >
Kolkata, July 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) A challenge petition was filed in the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday against its single-judge bench's order on the fresh recruitment notification by the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) for filling up teaching posts in state-run schools lying vacant following a Supreme Court order cancelling 25,753 jobs in April this year on the grounds that it "was not conclusive". On Monday, the single judge bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharya stated that the ca ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 8 (PTI) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court Tuesday granted permission to the West Bengal government and the WBSSC to challenge a single bench order regarding the commencement of the selection process for school teachers. The single bench on Monday directed the West Bengal School Service Commission to debar the identified tainted candidates of the 2016 selection process from participating in this year's fresh recruitment procedure, which the WBSSC has recently notified foll ...Read More >
The Calcutta High Court on Monday directed the West Bengal School Service Commission to debar the identified tainted candidates of the 2016 selection process from participating in the 2025 fresh recruitment procedure which the WBSSC has recently notified as per directions of the Supreme Court. The court further ordered that if any such tainted candidate is found to have already applied for the job, the SSC shall consider such application deemed to be cancelled. The bench of Justice Sougata Bha ...Read More >
Kolkata: Amid furore over the alleged gangrape in college, South Kolkata Law college on Monday got reopened following direction of Calcutta High Court with tight security. According to High Court sources, the college will remain open from 8 am to 2pm and no one including the teachers will be allowed to stay inside the premises after 2pm. A large contingent of police were seen with barricades outside the main gate of the college and everyone who were entering the college premises had to produce ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 7 (PTI) National Commission for Women (NCW) member Archana Majumdar on Monday visited the residence of Tamanna Khatoon in West Bengal's Nadia to meet her family and formally record their statement. Ten-year-old Tamanna was killed on June 23 when a bomb exploded during a victory celebration allegedly organised by Trinamool Congress supporters following the party's win in the Kaliganj Assembly by-election. Tamanna's mother broke down while narrating to the NCW member how her daughte ...Read More >
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