Source: telegraphindia.com he BJP on Friday sought the intervention of Calcutta High Court for the peaceful conduct of a no-trust vote at Bongaon municipality, alleging that the Trinamul chairman and his followers had stonewalled the process despite the court’s orders. Moving a petition on behalf of Dipendra Bairagi and 10 other BJP councillors, advocate Ashok
Source: outlookindia.com Kolkata, Jul 18 A section of BJP councillors of the Bongaon Municipality in West Bengal approached the Calcutta High Court on Thursday seeking to move a petition for removal of the civic body”s chairman. The court granted them leave and directed that the matter will be heard on Friday. Debjani Dagupta, the counsel
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com KOLKATA: Former Kolkata Police commissioner Rajeev Kumar Wednesday told the Calcutta High Court that the CBI was indulging in a pick and choose game by summoning him in the Saradha ponzi scam case among 121 officers of the SIT that probed the fraud on lakhs of investors. Kumar’s counsel Milan Mukherjee submitted that
Source: telegraphindia.com The two permanent ex-officio governors of the board of La Martiniere schools have moved the high court on Monday against an interim order restricting the board of governors of the two schools from taking any decision till July 31. The two ex-officio governors — Reverend Paritosh Canning, the bishop of the Calcutta diocese
source:telegraphindia.com The high court on Monday started hearing on Bidhannagar mayor Sabyasachi Dutta’s petition that challenged the legality of a no-confidence motion moved against him allegedly by some councillors of the municipal corporation. Justice Samapti Chatterjee asked the mayor to serve a notice on the corporation’s chairperson Krishna Chakrabarty asking her to take part in
Source: telegraphindia.com The high court on Monday issued an interim order restraining the school service commission from publishing the merit list for appointment of assistant teachers for government-aided upper primary schools in Bengal. Justice Mausumi Bhattacharya, who issued the order, allowed the commission to proceed with its decision to conduct the personality test for the
Source: financialexpress.com Vindicating the central government’s stance, the Calcutta High Court on Friday nullified the order of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT)’s Kolkata Bench, terming it as ‘usurpation of jurisdiction’. The CAT order on Wednesday had stayed the ‘compulsory retirement’ handed to an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) official under Section 56(j) of fundamental rules. The
Source: telegraphindia.com The high court on Thursday directed the state government to file an affidavit on the measures taken by it to ensure students’ safety in schools. The court also sought a report from the authorities of a private English-medium school in Regent Park on the steps taken by it to strengthen students’ security after
Source:-indiatoday.in The authorities of the school in Ranikuthi area informed the police about the girl, a topper of her class. She was taken to a nearby hospital where doctors declared her “brought dead”. class 10 student of a girl’s school in south Kolkata was found dead on Friday in a washroom of the institution with
There was a big seminar on legal education and the future of national law schools the other day with constitutional heavyweights in attendance. Five-year law, it was said, has captured the national imagination. In 1991, when I was leaving the safe ecosystem of Kolkata (then Calcutta) for law school in Karnataka, I had to grapple
