The ruling Left Front constituents and opposition parties in West Bengal on Tuesday hailed the Calcutta High Court order directing the Central Bureau of Investigation to investigate the death of Rizwanur Rehman, who married the daughter of a Hindu industrialist.
The court had on October 16 directed the CBI to complete the probe in two months and submit its report on Monday, but it could not be done as some formalities were yet to be completed by the central investigating agency.
A division bench comprising Justice P C Ghose and Justice T K Dutta, while setting aside the order of Justice K J Sengupta appointing the four administrators to the estate, directed Lodha not to sell any part of it or spend any amount from it except for its maintenance.
Dalmiya's counsel alleged that the BCCI placed a forged document before Justice Indira Banerjee, regarding condonation of time application for registration of an amendment to BCCI's Clause V of Rule 38.
Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta high court, who has been indicted by a judicial committee on an impeachment motion, has filed his reply to the Rajya Sabha, countering the charges against him.In his reply submitted on Thursday, Justice Sen is understood to have contended that he had done no wrong and there was no basis for the charges against him, on the basis of which he was found guilty by the committee set up by Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari.
The prime minister's remarks come close on the heels of the government preparing to move an impeachment motion against Calcutta high court Judge Soumitra Sen who has been accused of financial misconduct as a lawyer, before being elevated.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice S S Nijjar and Justice Maharaj Sinha, declining to pass an interim stay, however, asked the CBI not to press the matter till it passed the verdict on the stay application.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday vowed to thwart alleged attempts to rob Dalits and backward classes of reservations by the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) which he accused of 'enslavement' and performing 'mujra' for Muslim vote bank.
The panel had earlier summoned Pawar in 2020, but he could not appear before it due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown. Later, another summons was issued to Pawar for appearing before the commission on February 23 and 24 this year, but the senior politician had sought a fresh date, saying he wanted to file an additional affidavit before recording his testimony.
The division bench said it deemed it appropriate to stay the special court's order and direct that the "accused person shall be treated to be in judicial custody till further orders".
Barbara Taylor Bradford submitted evidence in support of her claim that Karishma: The Miracles Of Destiny is based on her novel.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to expedite hearing on a petition filed by three Birla family members, who have challenged the Calcutta High Court's order that refused them right to object to the purported 1999 'will' of late Priyamvada Birla.
Ranibai Rajaram Chhabria, mother of late Manohar Rajaram Chhabria, has challenged the merger of Shaw Wallace with the UB Group saying she was entitled to a fifth of her deceased son's estate.
A few hundred gold coins of Maurya Gupta and Mughal eras and gold artefacts, which could be worth several hundred crores, were recovered from a hidden strongroom in the house of late Priyamvada Birla.
The Calcutta high court on Friday took up Jagmohan Dalmiya's perjury case against the Board of Control for Cricket in India and its president Sharad Pawar for allegedly producing false documents before it. Justice Nadira Patheriya directed that the matter be heard on April 18.
In a crucial victory for Birlas in their legal battle against Rajendra S Lodha for control of the M P Birla group, Calcutta High Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking quashing of criminal proceedings against him and three others.
Violence rocked parts of West Bengal over the filing of nominations for the July 8 panchayat poll as activists of the ruling Trinamool Congress and opposition parties clashed prompting the police to use force to disperse the mob.
It said that people did not speak in any language other than their mother tongue when they are dying.
Justice Dutta directed Ruqbanur's counsel and also the CBI lawyer to file affidavits stating their opposition within three weeks of the plea for immediate circulation of the report. The court gave two weeks to the police officers and Todi to file their affidavits in reply to the opposition.
Justice Karnan in his response, alleged discrimination and 'social boycott' by companion judges on various grounds including his caste.
Led by CBI joint director Arun Kumar, the seven-member team of the Central agency's special crime branch spent more than an hour near the railway tracks in the Patipukur area of Kolkata's northern fringe after taking over the investigation from the state CID following an order of Calcutta High Court. The team includes forensic experts.
After analysing the entire judgment of the Calcutta high court on October 16, the CBI formed a special team headed by a joint director, to go into the circumstances leading to how Rizwanur met his end.
Five senior police officials told the Calcutta High Court that they handed out threats to Rehman, the computer graphics teacher, were baseless.
Senior advocate Gopal Subramaniam on Wednesday asked the Chief Justice of India to withdraw the recommendation about his candidature as the judge of the Supreme Court.
The cowardly act of terrorism has not dented his strength. He will continue to visit Mumbai and like always, will stay at the Oberoi-Trident.
Dalmiya is now free to contest the July 28 elections of the Cricket Association of Bengal.
The raid by the ED, which is probing the money trail of the school jobs scam, was conducted late Thursday evening, an official of the agency said.
Justice Karnan passed a 'suo motu judicial order in the interest of the nation to protect the general public from corruption and unrest'.
The Calcutta High Court on Monday rejected the anticipatory bail prayer of Trinamool Congress leader Sk Supiyan, who was the election agent of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram, in connection with a murder case being investigated by the CBI.
Jagmohan Dalmiya challenged his expulsion for life from the BCCI in a civil suit in the Calcutta high court.
Pawan Ruia has finally done it, a beaming Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, then West Bengal chief minister, had said at the reopening of the 70-year-old Sahagunj factory owned by Dunlop in 2005. But with the Calcutta high court passing a winding-up order in 2013 and the Trinamool Congress-led state government passing a Bill to take over the company in 2016, the once-upon-a-time undisputed leader in the Indian tyre industry looks vastly undone. But that can hardly be a deterrent for Ruia, who has a penchant for making headlines one way or the other.
The National Human Rights Commission, in its report, also observed that the "pervasive fear of reprisal, coupled with the power dynamics at play, acted as a formidable barrier", preventing individuals from voicing their grievances.
The Birla-Lodha fight over the Rs 5000 crore (Rs 50 billion) empire of M P Birla reached the Supreme Court on Friday when the Lodha group approached it challenging a Calcutta high court
The bench directed all the courts, tribunal and commissions across the country not to consider and act on the orders passed by him after February 8.
Ashok Todi, father-in-law of the computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rehman, who died on September 21, 2007, on Friday denied that his daughter Priyanka had married him and claimed that she was "taken" to the Muslim youth's house.
The dissent against the Tata Motors Rs 1 lakh car project at Singur appears to be finally ebbing with the disputed land being reduced to 120 acres vis--vis the earlier level of 330 acres.
