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Signature forgery: Abhishek reaches CID HQ for questioning
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress national General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday, June 11, appeared before the West Bengal Crime Investigation Department (CID) to face questions in the signature forgery case over the party’s…
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Abhishek Banerjee granted interim relief from coercive action
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court granted interim protection from coercive action to Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP and general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday, June 11, in the alleged forged signatures of newly…
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TMC to move Calcutta HC against recognition of Ritabrata as LoP
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) will move the Calcutta High Court on Monday, June 8, challenging the West Bengal Assembly Speaker’s decision to recognise rebel leader Ritabrata Banerjee as the Leader of…
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BJP-ruled states reinforce ban on cow slaughter ahead of Bakrid
With Bakrid fast approaching, several Bharatiya Janata Party- ruled states have reinforced bans on the slaughter of cattle, including cows, calves, buffaloes, camels, and other protected animals. The West Bengal government, on…
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Bakrid: Calcutta HC reserves order on Bengal cattle slaughter restrictions
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday, May 21, reserved its order on a batch of petitions challenging a West Bengal government notification that restricts cattle slaughter ahead of Eid ul-Adha, with the…
- Kolkata
Bengal polls: SC rejects TMC plea on EC counting personnel rule
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Saturday said no further order was necessary on the TMC’s plea challenging the Calcutta High Court’s dismissal of its petition against an Election Commission circular on…
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SC gives Centre final chance to clarify its stance on Bangladesh deportation
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday, April 24, granted the last opportunity to the Centre to apprise about its stand on a plea seeking to bring back some people who were…
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Calcutta HC stays EC order on action against ‘troublemakers,’ TMC says 500 held
Kolkata: A day before Assembly election in West Bengal, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday, April 22, stayed an order of an Election Commission-appointed police observer who termed several citizens “troublemakers” and directed…
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SC seeks Calcutta HC report on Bengal voter tribunals not functioning properly
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday, April 20, said it will seek a report from the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court on the functioning of appellate tribunals set up to…
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SC refuses to entertain plea against deletion of names from Bengal voter list
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday, April 13, declined to entertain a plea by a group of 13 people seeking its intervention in the deletion of their names from the voter…
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Vacancies for candidates with disabilities open to all categories: SC
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday, April 7, said “unreserved” vacancies for Persons with Disabilities (PWD) are an open pool where merit remains the decisive factor and that eligible candidates belonging…
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SC gives Malda incident probe to NIA, pulls up Bengal chief secretary
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday, April 6, exercised its plenary power to transfer cases related to gherao and attack on seven judicial officers engaged in Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise…
- Kolkata
No dispute now: Ex-Calcutta HC judge after name appears on SIR list
Justice Sahidullah Munshi, a retired Calcutta High Court judge, clarified on Saturday, March 28, that his name, along with his wife and son, has now appeared in the second supplementary Special Intensive…
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Ex-Calcutta HC judge to move tribunal after name deleted from Bengal voter list
Kolkata: After the first supplementary list of “under adjudication” voters was published on Monday, March 23, Calcutta High Court’s retired judge and West Bengal Waqf Board chairperson Shahidullah Munshi claimed that his…
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Bengal SIR: Judicial adjudication of ‘logical discrepancy’ cases begins today
Kolkata: The adjudication of voters’ documents identified under the “logical discrepancy” category by the judicial officers, as directed by the Supreme Court last week, will start from Monday. The process is expected…