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Arambag (West Bengal) [India], April 3 (ANI): BJP MP Biplab Kumar Deb on Thursday criticised West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, claiming that she disregards the Supreme Court, High Court, and law and order. Speaking on the Malda hostage crisis, Deb called it "very unfortunate" and attributed it to provocation by the TMC. "They don't understand the Supreme Court, nor the High Court, nor law and order, nor the dignity of the Chief Minister... The Election Commission is an independent body; it works ...Read More >
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Kolkata: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday had distanced herself from the Malda hostage incident of judicial officers. Speaking at an election campaign, Mamata said that her government does not have any control on the administration. "I don't have any power, everything is taken away from me. I was not informed about anything. I don't know how the incident happened and who is responsible for this. The law and order are in the hands of the Election Commission and they listen to only Ami ...Read More >
Raipur: The Chhattisgarh high court on Tuesday convicted former MLA Amit Jogi, son of late former chief minister Ajit Jogi, of murder of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ram Avatar Jaggi around 23 years ago, by setting aside a trial court's acquittal. Delivering the judgment in the sensational murder case, a division bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma directed Junior Jogi to surrender within three weeks. Jaggi who was the treasurer of the state unit of NC ...Read More >
New Delhi: Acting on the directions of the Supreme Court, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has written to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) requesting it to conduct an inquiry into the recent incident in West Bengal's Malda district where judicial officers deputed for electoral roll revision work were allegedly gheraoed and attacked. In a communication addressed to the Director General of the NIA, the poll panel referred to the apex court's order passed in a suo motu writ petition c ...Read More >
Kozhikode (Keralam) [India], April 2 (ANI): BJP MP Tejasvi Surya on Thursday criticised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the incident of seven judicial officers held "hostage" by villagers in Malda district over alleged mass deletions from electoral rolls in Special Intensive Revision (SIR), calling it "the last nail on the TMC coffin". Speaking with ANI, he held Trinamool Congress (TMC) responsible for the incident and condemned it for deliberately creating a situation of "lawle ...Read More >
Kolkata: There are already dozens of cases that central agencies are probing in West Bengal. One more was added to the list on Thursday, just three weeks before Assembly polls in the politically-charged state. This one is over a shocking incident in Malda, where seven judicial officers engaged in Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise-related work were held hostage by protesters a day earlier. Following the Supreme Court's intervention, the Election Commission of India (ECI) roped in the N ...Read More >
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday blamed Union home minister Amit Shah for the hostage-taking of judicial officers during protests in West Bengal's Malda against voter deletion as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), and demanded his resignation. She claimed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wanted to derail the April 23-29 assembly elections and impose President's rule. "Amit Shah entirely did it...the entire conspiracy... using the ECI [Election Commission of India]. He has t ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday came down heavily on the West Bengal administration for its "complete failure" and inaction over the "highly deplorable" gherao and attack on seven judicial officers in Malda district during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The court ordered an independent probe by the CBI or NIA and directed deployment of Central forces at all locations where objections to exclusion from electoral rolls are being adjudicated by appellate tribunals ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) The Election Commission of India on Thursday handed over the probe into the gherao of the seven judicial officers in West Bengal's Malda district to the NIA, following a Supreme Court directive. Observing that West Bengal was the "most polarised state", the Supreme Court delivered a stinging indictment of the state administration after seven judicial officers engaged in SIR exercise were held hostage by protesters in Malda district and directed a CBI or NIA probe into the i ...Read More >
Malda (West Bengal) [India], April 2 (ANI): A major political storm erupted in West Bengal after seven judicial officers, including three women, were held hostage by villagers in Malda district on April 1, triggering sharp exchanges between the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC). The incident, linked to alleged mass deletions from electoral rolls under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, drew strong reactions from BJP leaders, with Union Mi ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 2 (ANI): Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday termed the Malda incident a "symptom of systemic collapse," alleging a breakdown of law and order in West Bengal after seven judicial officers were reportedly held hostage for over nine hours, alongside violence and displacement in the Malda-Murshidabad region. In a post on X, Dharmendra wrote, "Malda is not an aberration--it is a symptom of systemic collapse under @MamataOfficial and AITCOfficial. Seven judicial o ...Read More >
Malda (West Bengal) [India], April 2 (ANI): A major political storm erupted in West Bengal after seven judicial officers, including three women, were held hostage by villagers in Malda district on April 1, triggering sharp exchanges between the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC). The incident, linked to alleged mass deletions from electoral rolls under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, drew strong reactions from BJP leaders, with Union Mi ...Read More >
New Delhi/Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) Observing that West Bengal was the "most polarised state", the Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a stinging indictment of the state administration after seven judicial officers engaged in SIR exercise were held hostage by protesters in Malda district and directed a CBI or NIA probe into the incident. Slamming the administration for its "complete failure" and inaction over the "deplorable" gherao and attack on the officers during the Special Intensive Revision(SI ...Read More >
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday took serious exception to an incident in West Bengal's Malda district where judicial officers deputed for work relating to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls were allegedly gheraoed and attacked, observing that it was a "brazen attempt" to browbeat the judiciary and a direct challenge to the authority of the apex court. A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M. Panchol ...Read More >
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the "valuable" right to vote cannot be "washed out" in a manner that creates an "oppressive" situation for citizens as it allowed tribunals set up in West Bengal to hear appeals of voters in the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) exercise to even examine fresh documents after verification. The order was passed by a bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on being informed that 19 tribunals headed by former high court chief ju ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 2 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Thursday permitted an aspiring candidate of the Congress to approach the newly constituted appellate tribunal in Kolkata against the deletion of his name from the electoral roll following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi was hearing the plea of Motab Shaikh, a probable Congress candidate, challenging his inclusion in the "adjudication deletion l ...Read More >
Sagardighi (West Bengal) [India], April 2 (ANI): As West Bengal assembly elections near, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of conspiring to get the upcoming polls cancelled and impose President's rule in the state. Addressing a poll rally in Sagardighi, CM Banerjee claimed that the BJP was behind the incident in Malda where seven judicial officers were taken hostage by villagers on Wednesday. Also Read | Sikkim State Lottery Result Today 6 PM L ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 2 (PTI) Terming West Bengal as the "most polarised state", the Supreme Court on Thursday slammed the administration for its "complete failure" and inaction over the "deplorable" gherao and attack on seven judicial officers in Malda district during the electoral rolls revision drive and directed a CBI or NIA probe besides deployment of central forces in the poll-bound state. In a scathing indictment, the top court said the incident "also exposes complete failure of the state admin ...Read More >
Sagardighi (West Bengal) [India], April 2 (ANI): As West Bengal assembly elections near, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of conspiring to get the upcoming polls cancelled and impose President's rule in the state. Addressing a poll rally in Sagardighi, CM Banerjee claimed that the BJP was behind the incident in Malda where seven judicial officers were taken hostage by villagers on Wednesday. "Administration is not under my control right now. L ...Read More >
Nainital, Apr 2 (PTI) The Uttarakhand High Court directed the Mussoorie municipality not to cut down any trees without obtaining required permission from the forest department, and asked the state government to file their responses in this matter. A division bench of Chief Justice Manoj Kumar Gupta and Justice Subhash Upadhyay was hearing a petition on Wednesday that some Oak trees in a notified forest area in Mussoorie's Husain Ganj. ...Read More >
Raipur: In the high-profile Ramavatar Jaggi murder case in Chhattisgarh, the High Court has delivered a major verdict. On Thursday, the court held Amit Jogi, son of former Chief Minister Ajit Jogi and president of Janta Congress Chhattisgarh-Jogi (JCC-J), guilty. A division bench led by Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha also directed him to surrender within three weeks. During the hearing, petitioner and Ramavatar Jaggi's son, Satish Jaggi, told the court that his father's murder was part of a politic ...Read More >
Bilaspur, Apr 2 (PTI) Nearly 23 years after the murder of NCP leader Ramavatar Jaggi, the Chhattisgarh High Court on Thursday convicted former CM Ajit Jogi's son Amit Jogi in the case, and directed him to surrender within three weeks, the CBI's counsel said. A trial court had in 2007 acquitted Amit Jogi, president of the Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (J), founded by his late father. The HC, however, reopened proceedings in the 2003 murder case last month following directions from the Supreme Co ...Read More >
RAIPUR: In a significant legal development, the Chhattisgarh High Court has delivered a blow to Amit Jogi, son of the state's first Chief Minister, Ajit Jogi, in the 2003 Ram Avatar Jaggi murder case. Following a hearing today, a Division Bench headed by Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha has directed Amit Jogi, formerly the main accused in the case, to surrender before the court within three weeks. After the court's order, Amit Jogi expressed regret, saying that the high court accepted the CBI's appe ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday, April 2, took suo motu cognisance of the gheraoing of seven judicial officers, including three women, by a mob in West Bengal's Malda district during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, terming it a "calculated and deliberate" attempt to demoralise the officers and obstruct the electoral process, and slamming the state administration's inaction as a "criminal failure." A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, Just ...Read More >
West Bengal SIR Protest Live Updates: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has become the most prominent and contentious issue ahead of the 2026 West Bengal Assembly election. As polling draws nearer, political tensions in the state are steadily rising, with fresh developments emerging almost every day. On Thursday morning, members of the Muslim community in the Malda district, whose names were excluded from the voter list, staged a protest by blocking National Highway 12. A ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 2 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Thursday came down heavily on the West Bengal administration for their alleged inaction over the "deplorable" gherao and attack on seven judicial officers in Malda district during the SIR drive and ordered an independent probe by the CBI or NIA. In a scathing indictment of the state administration, the top court said the incident "also exposes complete failure of the state administration" and observed that West Bengal is the "most polarised state". T ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 2 (ANI): The Supreme Court has taken a serious view of the violence and intimidation faced by seven judicial officers, including three woman officers who are deployed to adjudicate claims in the Election Commission's SIR process in West Bengal's Malda district. Terming the incident a brazen and deliberate attempt to obstruct the administration of justice, a bench led by CJI Surya Kant noted with concern that despite prior intimation, the State authorities failed to act ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday took serious note of seven judicial officials engaged in SIR exercise being taken "hostage" in West Bengal's Malda district, terming it deplorable and seeking responses from the state home secretary, DGP and other officials for their "inaction". A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi permitted the Election Commission to seek either a CBI or NIA probe into the unfortunate incident. It said the incident appea ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 2 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Thursday took serious note of seven judicial officials engaged in SIR exercise being taken "hostage" in West Bengal's Malda district, terming it deplorable and seeking responses from the state home secretary, DGP and other officials for their "inaction". A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi permitted the Election Commission to seek either CBI or NIA probe into the unfortunate incident. It said the inci ...Read More >
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant said the incident was a "brazen attempt to challenge the authority of this Court" and aimed at demoralising judicial officers engaged in election-related duties. The Supreme Court on Friday took a serious view of the violence and intimidation faced by seven judicial officers, including three women officers who are deployed to adjudicate claims in the Election Commission's SIR process in West Bengal's Malda district. Terming the incident a brazen and delib ...Read More >
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