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  • Supreme Court Rejects Petition Of Former RG Kar Principal Sandip Ghosh In Corruption Case |

    RG Kar Scam: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a petition filed by Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata. Ghosh had approached the apex court. He  claimed that the Calcutta High Court had not considered his version before ordering a CBI investigation into the corruption case against him.

    In his plea, Ghosh argued that the High Court’s decision was one-sided and that he was not given a fair hearing. However, the Supreme Court declined to hear the matter. This leaves the High Court’s order for a CBI probe intact.

    Further details are awaited

  • Kolkata Doctor Rape Murder: HC Questions Reappointment Of RG Kar Medical College’s Principal, To Review Case Diary |

    Following several Public Interest Litigations filed at the Chief Justice division bench of the Calcutta High Court concerning the rape-murder incident at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, the court has raised questions regarding the appointment of the principal post-resignation. The Chief Justice said on Tuesday that it is questionable for a principal, who resigned taking moral responsibility, to be appointed as the principal of another government college. The court has directed him to submit a leave application by 3 pm today, or it will issue an order for his removal from the position.

    The court also noted that while he may hold an administrative post, he ought to have been the first one interrogated. The court further inquired of the state counsel as to why there seems to be a protective stance towards him. It has been ordered to record his statement and allow him to disclose all that he knows. The Chief Justice Division bench has instructed that the case diary be presented before the court at 1 pm today.

  • CJI Chandrachud raps HC pass judgement on, says he has no trade giving media interview on pending case

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    NEW DELHI: Judges don’t have any trade giving interviews to the media on pending instances, CJI DY Chandrachud remarked on Monday as he sought explanation from a sitting pass judgement on of the Calcutta HC Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay in the course of the Registrar Normal over his interview to a information channel a couple of case being heard through him.

    “Judges don’t have any trade granting interviews to information channels on pending issues. If that is true, he can’t pay attention this situation anymore. If he has achieved so then he can’t take part anymore. We can now not contact the investigation but when a pass judgement on provides an opinion at the petitioner on a TV debate, then he can’t pay attention it. The HC leader then has to represent a brand new bench,” the CJI mentioned.

    The CJI mentioned that even supposing the courtroom used to be now not going into the deserves of the case the place the Calcutta HC directed the CBI to probe the position of TMC common secretary Abhishek Banerjee within the alleged recruitment rip-off as of now, it used to be crucial to understand if the interview used to be given through the pass judgement on or now not.

    ALSO READ | ‘Appearing like political birthday party:’ HC pass judgement on’s feedback on Abhishek Banerjee draw TMC flak

    The remarks have been made through the CJI whilst taking into account a plea filed through TMC common secretary Abhishek Banerjee towards the Calcutta HC order directing the CBI and ED to query him over the main trainer recruitment rip-off.

    Now not most effective Banerjee however even the West Bengal executive approached the Excellent Court docket towards the Calcutta HC’s order directing the CBI to probe into alleged irregularities in recruitment at the ED’s plea. The HC on April 22 after being attentive to the ED’s findings all through its probe within the rip-off had directed the CBI to research.

    Showing on behalf of Banerjee, senior attorney Abhishek Singhvi asked the courtroom to take into accout of the interview given through Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay to ABP Ananda by which the pass judgement on allegedly spoke towards Banerjee. “This can be a little exceptional. That is with largest humility and recognize and simply now not achieved. This used to be mentioned in presence of our attorneys. The only pass judgement on has now not clarified or revoked the remark.”

    Closing Monday, the SC had stayed the Calcutta HC’s order directing the CBI and ED to query TMC common secretary Abhishek Banerjee over the rip-off. Singhvi had submitted prior to the bench that even supposing the writ filed prior to the HC had not anything to do with Banerjee, the pass judgement on had nonetheless directed the CBI and EC for wondering him. All through the listening to, he had additionally referred to an interview which used to be given through Justice Gangopadhyay (the pass judgement on who had handed the order) wherein some statements have been allegedly made through him towards Banerjee. He mentioned that this used to be a floor for apprehension of bias.

    NEW DELHI: Judges don’t have any trade giving interviews to the media on pending instances, CJI DY Chandrachud remarked on Monday as he sought explanation from a sitting pass judgement on of the Calcutta HC Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay in the course of the Registrar Normal over his interview to a information channel a couple of case being heard through him.

    “Judges don’t have any trade granting interviews to information channels on pending issues. If that is true, he can’t pay attention this situation anymore. If he has achieved so then he can’t take part anymore. We can now not contact the investigation but when a pass judgement on provides an opinion at the petitioner on a TV debate, then he can’t pay attention it. The HC leader then has to represent a brand new bench,” the CJI mentioned.

    The CJI mentioned that even supposing the courtroom used to be now not going into the deserves of the case the place the Calcutta HC directed the CBI to probe the position of TMC common secretary Abhishek Banerjee within the alleged recruitment rip-off as of now, it used to be crucial to understand if the interview used to be given through the pass judgement on or now not.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    ALSO READ | ‘Appearing like political birthday party:’ HC pass judgement on’s feedback on Abhishek Banerjee draw TMC flak

    The remarks have been made through the CJI whilst taking into account a plea filed through TMC common secretary Abhishek Banerjee towards the Calcutta HC order directing the CBI and ED to query him over the main trainer recruitment rip-off.

    Now not most effective Banerjee however even the West Bengal executive approached the Excellent Court docket towards the Calcutta HC’s order directing the CBI to probe into alleged irregularities in recruitment at the ED’s plea. The HC on April 22 after being attentive to the ED’s findings all through its probe within the rip-off had directed the CBI to research.

    Showing on behalf of Banerjee, senior attorney Abhishek Singhvi asked the courtroom to take into accout of the interview given through Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay to ABP Ananda by which the pass judgement on allegedly spoke towards Banerjee. “This can be a little exceptional. That is with largest humility and recognize and simply now not achieved. This used to be mentioned in presence of our attorneys. The only pass judgement on has now not clarified or revoked the remark.”

    Closing Monday, the SC had stayed the Calcutta HC’s order directing the CBI and ED to query TMC common secretary Abhishek Banerjee over the rip-off. Singhvi had submitted prior to the bench that even supposing the writ filed prior to the HC had not anything to do with Banerjee, the pass judgement on had nonetheless directed the CBI and EC for wondering him. All through the listening to, he had additionally referred to an interview which used to be given through Justice Gangopadhyay (the pass judgement on who had handed the order) wherein some statements have been allegedly made through him towards Banerjee. He mentioned that this used to be a floor for apprehension of bias.

  • Calcutta Prime Court docket calls Didi’s doorstep ration scheme unlawful

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    KOLKATA: The West Bengal govt on Wednesday won a big setback because the Calcutta Prime Court docket termed its ‘Duare Ration’ (meals grains at the doorstep) scheme as legally void. The initiative used to be promised by means of Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee earlier than the 2021 Meeting elections and carried out after the Trinamool Congress (TMC) got here to energy for the 3rd immediately time period.

    The order got here after a petitioner moved the excessive court docket difficult the state govt’s initiative.
    “The Duare Ration scheme is extremely vires to the Nationwide Meals Safety Act, 2013, and is, subsequently, a nullity within the eye of the regulation,’’ stated the department bench comprising justice Aniruddha Roy and justice Chitta Ranjan Das.

    “We’re, subsequently, constrained to carry that the state govt has transgressed the restrict of delegation by means of obliging the truthful worth store sellers to distribute the rations to the beneficiaries at their doorstep in absence of any authority to that impact within the enabling Act i.e. ‘NFS Act’. If the ‘NFS Act’ is amended by means of the knowledge of the Union Legislature i.e. Parliament for doorstep supply of meals grains to the beneficiaries or make investments this sort of energy to the state govt then best the sort of scheme can also be made by means of the State and that may be stated to be in sync with the enabling Act,’’ the department bench noticed.

    The meals and provides division had in a notification cited provisions of the Nationwide Meals Safety Act (NFSA), claiming that it permits the state govt to ship rations at beneficiaries’ doorsteps.

    All through the process the listening to, the attorney representing the state govt cited clause 12 beneath NFSA’s bankruptcy V titled Reforms in Focused Public Distribution Machine which mentions that the central and state governments shall endeavour to steadily adopt important reforms within the centered public distribution device (PDS) in consonance with the function envisaged for them on this Act. The reforms shall, inter alia, come with doorstep supply of meals grains, he stated.

    He additionally cited the NFSA’s clause no 32 which says, “However the rest contained on this Act, the state govt might, proceed with or formulate meals or vitamin based totally plans or schemes offering for advantages upper than the advantages supplied beneath this Act, from its personal recourses.”

    However the department bench used to be no longer glad with the state’s rationalization and stalled the scheme.  The BJP welcomed the decision. “We raised the problem of the criminal standing of the scheme. It used to be introduced by means of Mamata to draw electorates as a part of her populist politics. The court docket order made it transparent that the scheme had no criminal standing because it used to be introduced,’’ celebration spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya stated.

    Mamata’s promise of distributing meals grains on the doorstep of folks, made forward of the high-octane Meeting polls in 2021, used to be stated to be one of the most key elements at the back of the TMC’s thumping victory regardless of BJP’s competitive marketing campaign.

    The way it opened up

    February 2021: Mamata guarantees Duare Sarkar’s scheme if her celebration returns to energy.

    Would possibly 2021: TMC returns to energy and Mamata publicizes the implementation of the scheme in a while.

    November 2021: The scheme used to be carried out.

    November 2021: Petition filed in Prime Court docket difficult the initiative.

    December 2021: Unmarried bench pass judgement on upheld the meal scheme by means of opining {that a} reform within the centered public distribution device and a welfare scheme is a necessity-driven measure

    December 2021: Petitioner moved department bench.

    September 2022:  Prime court docket stalled the scheme pronouncing it’s legally void.

    Scheme

     Round 21,000 ration sellers succeed in localities the place beneficiaries are living to distribute meals grains.
     The ability is to be had from Tuesday to Friday each and every week.
     Focused beneficiaries are round 10 crore inhabitants.

    KOLKATA: The West Bengal govt on Wednesday won a big setback because the Calcutta Prime Court docket termed its ‘Duare Ration’ (meals grains at the doorstep) scheme as legally void. The initiative used to be promised by means of Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee earlier than the 2021 Meeting elections and carried out after the Trinamool Congress (TMC) got here to energy for the 3rd immediately time period.

    The order got here after a petitioner moved the excessive court docket difficult the state govt’s initiative.
    “The Duare Ration scheme is extremely vires to the Nationwide Meals Safety Act, 2013, and is, subsequently, a nullity within the eye of the regulation,’’ stated the department bench comprising justice Aniruddha Roy and justice Chitta Ranjan Das.

    “We’re, subsequently, constrained to carry that the state govt has transgressed the restrict of delegation by means of obliging the truthful worth store sellers to distribute the rations to the beneficiaries at their doorstep in absence of any authority to that impact within the enabling Act i.e. ‘NFS Act’. If the ‘NFS Act’ is amended by means of the knowledge of the Union Legislature i.e. Parliament for doorstep supply of meals grains to the beneficiaries or make investments this sort of energy to the state govt then best the sort of scheme can also be made by means of the State and that may be stated to be in sync with the enabling Act,’’ the department bench noticed.

    The meals and provides division had in a notification cited provisions of the Nationwide Meals Safety Act (NFSA), claiming that it permits the state govt to ship rations at beneficiaries’ doorsteps.

    All through the process the listening to, the attorney representing the state govt cited clause 12 beneath NFSA’s bankruptcy V titled Reforms in Focused Public Distribution Machine which mentions that the central and state governments shall endeavour to steadily adopt important reforms within the centered public distribution device (PDS) in consonance with the function envisaged for them on this Act. The reforms shall, inter alia, come with doorstep supply of meals grains, he stated.

    He additionally cited the NFSA’s clause no 32 which says, “However the rest contained on this Act, the state govt might, proceed with or formulate meals or vitamin based totally plans or schemes offering for advantages upper than the advantages supplied beneath this Act, from its personal recourses.”

    However the department bench used to be no longer glad with the state’s rationalization and stalled the scheme.  The BJP welcomed the decision. “We raised the problem of the criminal standing of the scheme. It used to be introduced by means of Mamata to draw electorates as a part of her populist politics. The court docket order made it transparent that the scheme had no criminal standing because it used to be introduced,’’ celebration spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya stated.

    Mamata’s promise of distributing meals grains on the doorstep of folks, made forward of the high-octane Meeting polls in 2021, used to be stated to be one of the most key elements at the back of the TMC’s thumping victory regardless of BJP’s competitive marketing campaign.

    The way it opened up

    February 2021: Mamata guarantees Duare Sarkar’s scheme if her celebration returns to energy.

    Would possibly 2021: TMC returns to energy and Mamata publicizes the implementation of the scheme in a while.

    November 2021: The scheme used to be carried out.

    November 2021: Petition filed in Prime Court docket difficult the initiative.

    December 2021: Unmarried bench pass judgement on upheld the meal scheme by means of opining {that a} reform within the centered public distribution device and a welfare scheme is a necessity-driven measure

    December 2021: Petitioner moved department bench.

    September 2022:  Prime court docket stalled the scheme pronouncing it’s legally void.

    Scheme

     Round 21,000 ration sellers succeed in localities the place beneficiaries are living to distribute meals grains.
     The ability is to be had from Tuesday to Friday each and every week.
     Focused beneficiaries are round 10 crore inhabitants.

  • Faculty appointment row: HC asks Anubrata Mondal’s daughter, 5 others to look sooner than it

    By means of PTI

    KOLKATA: The Calcutta Top Courtroom on Wednesday directed Sukanya Mondal, daughter of arrested TMC chief Anubrata Mondal, to look sooner than it on Thursday in reference to an allegation that she and 5 others have been appointed in number one colleges with no need cleared Lecturers’ Eligibility Check (TET).

    The petitioner has alleged that some folks intently associated with Anubrata Mondal, who may be the chairman of West Bengal Rural Construction Authority, were given jobs as academics, together with Sukanya, who by no means visited Kalikapur Number one Faculty in Birbhum, the place she was once hired.

    Within the affidavit, the petitioner claimed that the college attendance check in was once despatched to Sukanya’s place of dwelling for her signature.

    Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay directed six individuals named within the affidavit to look individually on Thursday sooner than the courtroom with their TET certificates and their appointment letter.

    “If any one fails to look, as has been directed above, the courtroom won’t hesitate to take harsh steps in opposition to them,” he directed.

    Justice Gangopadhyay had previous ordered CBI investigation in a lot of circumstances of alleged irregularities in appointment of training and non-teaching personnel in West Bengal government-sponsored and -aided colleges within the state.

    Mondal was once arrested via the CBI ultimate week in a livestock smuggling case.

    KOLKATA: The Calcutta Top Courtroom on Wednesday directed Sukanya Mondal, daughter of arrested TMC chief Anubrata Mondal, to look sooner than it on Thursday in reference to an allegation that she and 5 others have been appointed in number one colleges with no need cleared Lecturers’ Eligibility Check (TET).

    The petitioner has alleged that some folks intently associated with Anubrata Mondal, who may be the chairman of West Bengal Rural Construction Authority, were given jobs as academics, together with Sukanya, who by no means visited Kalikapur Number one Faculty in Birbhum, the place she was once hired.

    Within the affidavit, the petitioner claimed that the college attendance check in was once despatched to Sukanya’s place of dwelling for her signature.

    Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay directed six individuals named within the affidavit to look individually on Thursday sooner than the courtroom with their TET certificates and their appointment letter.

    “If any one fails to look, as has been directed above, the courtroom won’t hesitate to take harsh steps in opposition to them,” he directed.

    Justice Gangopadhyay had previous ordered CBI investigation in a lot of circumstances of alleged irregularities in appointment of training and non-teaching personnel in West Bengal government-sponsored and -aided colleges within the state.

    Mondal was once arrested via the CBI ultimate week in a livestock smuggling case.

  • HC asks ED to take Bengal min to AIIMS Bhubaneswar; TMC calls for time-bound probe

    By way of PTI

    KOLKATA: The Calcutta Top Courtroom on Sunday directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to take West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, arrested in reference to the varsity jobs rip-off, to AIIMS Bhubaneswar early on Monday by way of air ambulance.

    The courtroom directed that the minister be produced sooner than a different ED courtroom in Kolkata via digital mode at 4 pm on Monday.

    TMC, then again, demanded a time-bound probe within the ED case in opposition to Chatterjee, saying the birthday celebration is not going to intervene politically if any chief has achieved anything else unsuitable.

    ED additionally produced the senior TMC chief’s affiliate Arpita Mukherjee sooner than a courtroom, which remanded her to one-day custody of the company.

    ED workforce raided a number of places within the state on July 22 as a part of their probe into the cash path thinking about a instructor recruitment rip-off at government-sponsored and aided colleges.

    Crores of rupees in money at the side of different pieces have been allegedly recovered from Mukherjee’s place of abode, resources mentioned. PTI may just no longer independently examine the tips.

    Chatterjee and Mukherjee have been arrested as a part of ED’s investigation into the rip-off.

    After listening to pleadings in a revision utility moved by way of the ED difficult a decrease courtroom order sending Chatterjee to state-run SSKM Medical institution after his legal professionals claimed he was once in poor health, Justice Chaudhuri directed, “The investigating company is directed to take the accused by way of air ambulance to AIIMS, Bhubaneswar within the early morning on twenty fifth July, 2022.”

    He directed that the AIIMS, Bhubaneswar authority will medically read about the accused by way of a crew of specialist medical doctors of cardiology, nephrology, respiration medications and endocrinology.

    ED moved the prime courtroom difficult Bankshall Courtroom order which directed that Chatterjee, who complained of uneasiness after his arrested, be admitted to SSKM Medical institution.

    The central company additionally claimed that the decrease courtroom can direct good enough remedy of an individual however can’t specify a specific facility. The ED moved a revision petition sooner than the prime courtroom and sought permission for an pressing listening to right through the day.

    The decrease courtroom on Saturday remanded Chatterjee to 2 days’ ED custody whilst sending him to the health center on a prayer by way of his legal professionals that he was once ill and wanted scientific remedy. Counsels for the ED claimed that Chatterjee, a senior minister within the state, is an influential individual and as such will have to no longer be stored in a state-run health center.

    Chatterjee’s legal professionals adversarial the prayer and mentioned his remedy was once being achieved accurately at SSKM health center. The ED instructed that Chatterjee can also be handled at an AIIMS health center which has an excellent healthcare infrastructure.

    In the meantime, TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh mentioned the birthday celebration has no reference to Mukherjee, in whose flat an enormous amount of money was once allegedly discovered. “The birthday celebration calls for time-bound investigation within the case,” he mentioned, keeping up that investigations by way of central companies in some circumstances had been happening for a few years.

    The CBI has been investigating the multi-crore Saradha chit fund case since 2014, whilst the Narada tapes case, which spread out forward of 2016 elections, was once additionally but to succeed in any conclusion. “Legislation will take its personal route; the Trinamool Congress is not going to intervene, then again large a pace-setter will get thinking about it,” Ghosh mentioned.

    Mukherjee, who was once arrested on Saturday after grilling for a number of hours at her posh rental block in south Kolkata, was once produced sooner than a courtroom.

    Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Namrata Singh, accountable for the Leader Metropolitan Justice of the Peace courtroom, directed that Mukherjee be produced sooner than the designated ED courtroom on Monday. ED counsels, together with Abhijit Bhadra, had prayed for 14 days’ custody of Mukherjee.

    KOLKATA: The Calcutta Top Courtroom on Sunday directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to take West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, arrested in reference to the varsity jobs rip-off, to AIIMS Bhubaneswar early on Monday by way of air ambulance.

    The courtroom directed that the minister be produced sooner than a different ED courtroom in Kolkata via digital mode at 4 pm on Monday.

    TMC, then again, demanded a time-bound probe within the ED case in opposition to Chatterjee, saying the birthday celebration is not going to intervene politically if any chief has achieved anything else unsuitable.

    ED additionally produced the senior TMC chief’s affiliate Arpita Mukherjee sooner than a courtroom, which remanded her to one-day custody of the company.

    ED workforce raided a number of places within the state on July 22 as a part of their probe into the cash path thinking about a instructor recruitment rip-off at government-sponsored and aided colleges.

    Crores of rupees in money at the side of different pieces have been allegedly recovered from Mukherjee’s place of abode, resources mentioned. PTI may just no longer independently examine the tips.

    Chatterjee and Mukherjee have been arrested as a part of ED’s investigation into the rip-off.

    After listening to pleadings in a revision utility moved by way of the ED difficult a decrease courtroom order sending Chatterjee to state-run SSKM Medical institution after his legal professionals claimed he was once in poor health, Justice Chaudhuri directed, “The investigating company is directed to take the accused by way of air ambulance to AIIMS, Bhubaneswar within the early morning on twenty fifth July, 2022.”

    He directed that the AIIMS, Bhubaneswar authority will medically read about the accused by way of a crew of specialist medical doctors of cardiology, nephrology, respiration medications and endocrinology.

    ED moved the prime courtroom difficult Bankshall Courtroom order which directed that Chatterjee, who complained of uneasiness after his arrested, be admitted to SSKM Medical institution.

    The central company additionally claimed that the decrease courtroom can direct good enough remedy of an individual however can’t specify a specific facility. The ED moved a revision petition sooner than the prime courtroom and sought permission for an pressing listening to right through the day.

    The decrease courtroom on Saturday remanded Chatterjee to 2 days’ ED custody whilst sending him to the health center on a prayer by way of his legal professionals that he was once ill and wanted scientific remedy. Counsels for the ED claimed that Chatterjee, a senior minister within the state, is an influential individual and as such will have to no longer be stored in a state-run health center.

    Chatterjee’s legal professionals adversarial the prayer and mentioned his remedy was once being achieved accurately at SSKM health center. The ED instructed that Chatterjee can also be handled at an AIIMS health center which has an excellent healthcare infrastructure.

    In the meantime, TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh mentioned the birthday celebration has no reference to Mukherjee, in whose flat an enormous amount of money was once allegedly discovered. “The birthday celebration calls for time-bound investigation within the case,” he mentioned, keeping up that investigations by way of central companies in some circumstances had been happening for a few years.

    The CBI has been investigating the multi-crore Saradha chit fund case since 2014, whilst the Narada tapes case, which spread out forward of 2016 elections, was once additionally but to succeed in any conclusion. “Legislation will take its personal route; the Trinamool Congress is not going to intervene, then again large a pace-setter will get thinking about it,” Ghosh mentioned.

    Mukherjee, who was once arrested on Saturday after grilling for a number of hours at her posh rental block in south Kolkata, was once produced sooner than a courtroom.

    Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Namrata Singh, accountable for the Leader Metropolitan Justice of the Peace courtroom, directed that Mukherjee be produced sooner than the designated ED courtroom on Monday. ED counsels, together with Abhijit Bhadra, had prayed for 14 days’ custody of Mukherjee.

  • Calcutta HC directs ED to take arrested Bengal minister to AIIMS Bhubaneswar

    Through PTI

    KOLKATA: The Calcutta Top Court docket on Sunday directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to take West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, arrested in reference to the college jobs rip-off, to AIIMS Bhubaneswar early on Monday through air ambulance.

    The courtroom directed that the minister be produced ahead of a different ED courtroom in Kolkata via digital mode at 4 PM on Monday.

    “The investigating company is directed to take the accused through air ambulance to AIIMS, Bhubaneswar within the early morning on twenty fifth July, 2022,” Justice Bibek Chaudhuri directed.

    After listening to pleadings in a revision utility moved through the ED difficult a decrease courtroom order sending Chatterjee to state-run SSKM Medical institution after his legal professionals claimed he was once sick, Justice Chaudhuri directed that the AIIMS, Bhubaneswar authority will medically read about the accused through a group of specialist medical doctors of cardiology, nephrology, respiration drugs and endocrinology.

    KOLKATA: The Calcutta Top Court docket on Sunday directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to take West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, arrested in reference to the college jobs rip-off, to AIIMS Bhubaneswar early on Monday through air ambulance.

    The courtroom directed that the minister be produced ahead of a different ED courtroom in Kolkata via digital mode at 4 PM on Monday.

    “The investigating company is directed to take the accused through air ambulance to AIIMS, Bhubaneswar within the early morning on twenty fifth July, 2022,” Justice Bibek Chaudhuri directed.

    After listening to pleadings in a revision utility moved through the ED difficult a decrease courtroom order sending Chatterjee to state-run SSKM Medical institution after his legal professionals claimed he was once sick, Justice Chaudhuri directed that the AIIMS, Bhubaneswar authority will medically read about the accused through a group of specialist medical doctors of cardiology, nephrology, respiration drugs and endocrinology.

  • Trinamool’s Martyrs’ Day rally: HC bats for compliance to COVID norms; BJP cancels Uluberia rally

    Via PTI

    KOLKATA: The Calcutta Prime Court docket on Wednesday directed that the West Bengal govt’s Well being and Circle of relatives Welfare division pointers be adopted whilst protecting the Martyrs’ Day rally by way of the ruling Trinamool Congress celebration.

    Claiming that round 15 to twenty lakh persons are going to wait the rally at Esplanade in Kolkata on July 21, amid emerging instances of COVID-19 within the state, a prayer used to be made sooner than the court docket in a PIL to direct the state to take ok measures and put in force regulations to behavior the programme just about or to practice a strict and correct tenet for it.

    Suggest Common S N Mookherjee, showing for the state, knowledgeable the department bench presided by way of Leader Justice Prakash Shrivastava that the Well being and Circle of relatives Welfare division of the state has issued a tenet for containing the rally and the ones in need of to wait it.

    The advisory mentioned that simplest asymptomatic and entirely vaccinated folks will have to ideally attend public gatherings following COVID-appropriate behaviour.

    The bench, additionally comprising Justice R Bharadwaj, directed the government involved to make certain that the tips are adopted whilst protecting the general public collecting on July 21 at the instance of Martyrs’ Day the big apple the TMC.

    Casting off the PIL, the court docket additionally directed the state government to take all imaginable steps to make certain that this sort of collecting won’t result in the unfold of COVID within the state and that the rally is held in a calm environment.

    A complete of four,500 police team of workers might be deployed around the town, of whom 3,500 might be on the venue within the middle of town.

    Further CCTVs were put in there, a senior officer mentioned.

    Round 30 deputy commissioner-rank officials, 70 assistant commissioner-rank officials and 150 inspectors might be on the venue.

    Except that, 750 different law enforcement officials might be deployed in different portions of the japanese city.

    A tab might be saved at the motion of rally attendees against the venue, and policemen in plainclothes might be posted at other access issues to town, he mentioned.

    Twelve heavy radio flying squads might be deployed, and an ok collection of PCR trucks will patrol town streets on Wednesday night time.

    Many of us will achieve Kolkata by way of crossing Hooghly River.

    Particular DMG boats and divers might be deployed for his or her protection, he added.

    TMC observes Martyrs’ Day on July 21 annually to commemorate the killing of 13 folks in police firing on a Formative years Congress rally towards the then Left Entrance govt in 1993 when Banerjee used to be the YC state president.

    She continues to watch the day even after forming the Trinamool Congress in 1998 and coming to energy in West Bengal in 2011.

    West Bengal BJP known as off its public assembly in Howrah’s Uluberia, scheduled to be hung on Thursday, bringing up its lack of ability to carry a a success rally in view of the Calcutta Prime Court docket’s prerequisites.

    The saffron celebration has determined to carry the development at a later date, which is but to be determined.

    Calcutta Prime Court docket on Wednesday granted conditional permission to BJP to carry the rally at the identical day the TMC will hang its huge Martyrs’ Day rally in Kolkata.

    Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya mentioned the assembly can also be held from 8 PM to ten PM, and BJP has to make certain that legislation and order is maintained and that no speaker problems any provocative statements.

    Additionally, the saffron celebration should make certain that NH 16 isn’t obstructed because of the rally.

    “With the prerequisites, it would possibly not be imaginable to carry a rally correctly. So, we have now determined to cancel it as of now,” Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari instructed newshounds.

    The ruling TMC is scheduled to carry an enormous rally on its Martyrs’ Day on July 21, with a number of lakhs of folks prone to attend the programme, which might be addressed by way of celebration leader Mamata Banerjee.

    TMC management mentioned BJP’s rally used to be supposed to snatch media consideration.

    “BJP has misplaced political relevance in West Bengal. Its plan to carry the rally used to be an try to get some media consideration,” TMC state basic secretary Kunal Ghosh mentioned.

    Banerjee mentioned that its Martyrs’ Day rally might be towards the Centre’s “authoritarian rule”.

    The celebration plans to make its annual rally, being held after an opening of 2 years because of COVID-19 pandemic, a grand good fortune.

    TMC basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee claimed that round 20 lakh folks will attend the development.

    TMC observes Martyrs’ Day on July 21 annually to commemorate the killing of 13 folks in police firing on a Formative years Congress rally towards the then Left Entrance govt in 1993 when Banerjee used to be the YC state president.

    She continues to watch the day even after forming the Trinamool Congress in 1998 and coming to energy in West Bengal in 2011.

    KOLKATA: The Calcutta Prime Court docket on Wednesday directed that the West Bengal govt’s Well being and Circle of relatives Welfare division pointers be adopted whilst protecting the Martyrs’ Day rally by way of the ruling Trinamool Congress celebration.

    Claiming that round 15 to twenty lakh persons are going to wait the rally at Esplanade in Kolkata on July 21, amid emerging instances of COVID-19 within the state, a prayer used to be made sooner than the court docket in a PIL to direct the state to take ok measures and put in force regulations to behavior the programme just about or to practice a strict and correct tenet for it.

    Suggest Common S N Mookherjee, showing for the state, knowledgeable the department bench presided by way of Leader Justice Prakash Shrivastava that the Well being and Circle of relatives Welfare division of the state has issued a tenet for containing the rally and the ones in need of to wait it.

    The advisory mentioned that simplest asymptomatic and entirely vaccinated folks will have to ideally attend public gatherings following COVID-appropriate behaviour.

    The bench, additionally comprising Justice R Bharadwaj, directed the government involved to make certain that the tips are adopted whilst protecting the general public collecting on July 21 at the instance of Martyrs’ Day the big apple the TMC.

    Casting off the PIL, the court docket additionally directed the state government to take all imaginable steps to make certain that this sort of collecting won’t result in the unfold of COVID within the state and that the rally is held in a calm environment.

    A complete of four,500 police team of workers might be deployed around the town, of whom 3,500 might be on the venue within the middle of town.

    Further CCTVs were put in there, a senior officer mentioned.

    Round 30 deputy commissioner-rank officials, 70 assistant commissioner-rank officials and 150 inspectors might be on the venue.

    Except that, 750 different law enforcement officials might be deployed in different portions of the japanese city.

    A tab might be saved at the motion of rally attendees against the venue, and policemen in plainclothes might be posted at other access issues to town, he mentioned.

    Twelve heavy radio flying squads might be deployed, and an ok collection of PCR trucks will patrol town streets on Wednesday night time.

    Many of us will achieve Kolkata by way of crossing Hooghly River.

    Particular DMG boats and divers might be deployed for his or her protection, he added.

    TMC observes Martyrs’ Day on July 21 annually to commemorate the killing of 13 folks in police firing on a Formative years Congress rally towards the then Left Entrance govt in 1993 when Banerjee used to be the YC state president.

    She continues to watch the day even after forming the Trinamool Congress in 1998 and coming to energy in West Bengal in 2011.

    West Bengal BJP known as off its public assembly in Howrah’s Uluberia, scheduled to be hung on Thursday, bringing up its lack of ability to carry a a success rally in view of the Calcutta Prime Court docket’s prerequisites.

    The saffron celebration has determined to carry the development at a later date, which is but to be determined.

    Calcutta Prime Court docket on Wednesday granted conditional permission to BJP to carry the rally at the identical day the TMC will hang its huge Martyrs’ Day rally in Kolkata.

    Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya mentioned the assembly can also be held from 8 PM to ten PM, and BJP has to make certain that legislation and order is maintained and that no speaker problems any provocative statements.

    Additionally, the saffron celebration should make certain that NH 16 isn’t obstructed because of the rally.

    “With the prerequisites, it would possibly not be imaginable to carry a rally correctly. So, we have now determined to cancel it as of now,” Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari instructed newshounds.

    The ruling TMC is scheduled to carry an enormous rally on its Martyrs’ Day on July 21, with a number of lakhs of folks prone to attend the programme, which might be addressed by way of celebration leader Mamata Banerjee.

    TMC management mentioned BJP’s rally used to be supposed to snatch media consideration.

    “BJP has misplaced political relevance in West Bengal. Its plan to carry the rally used to be an try to get some media consideration,” TMC state basic secretary Kunal Ghosh mentioned.

    Banerjee mentioned that its Martyrs’ Day rally might be towards the Centre’s “authoritarian rule”.

    The celebration plans to make its annual rally, being held after an opening of 2 years because of COVID-19 pandemic, a grand good fortune.

    TMC basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee claimed that round 20 lakh folks will attend the development.

    TMC observes Martyrs’ Day on July 21 annually to commemorate the killing of 13 folks in police firing on a Formative years Congress rally towards the then Left Entrance govt in 1993 when Banerjee used to be the YC state president.

    She continues to watch the day even after forming the Trinamool Congress in 1998 and coming to energy in West Bengal in 2011.

  • Calcutta HC directs executive to record affidavit on KK’s dying

    The Calcutta Prime Court docket on Monday directed the West Bengal executive to record a testimony at the dying of Bollywood playback singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, popularly referred to as KK, who died after his efficiency at Kolkata’s Nazrul Mancha auditorium on Might 31.

    A department bench of Leader Justice Prakash Srivastava and Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj ordered the federal government to record the affidavit inside 3 weeks and requested the management to remember in order that such tragic incidents don’t happen in long run.

    The directive got here whilst listening to 3 public pastime litigations (PILs) by means of 3 attorneys at the singer’s dying. One of the vital petitioners additionally demanded a CBI probe into the topic. The petitioners had claimed that there used to be “utter mismanagement” at Nazrul Manch all the way through KK’s are living efficiency on Might 31. It used to be additionally alleged that the air-conditioning device didn’t paintings correctly because of overcrowding which resulted in suffocation within the auditorium. Quite a lot of clips have been produced to say that KK used to be feeling uneasy all the way through the efficiency, and that he took a 10-minute spoil to take leisure in the midst of the display.

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  • Courtroom junks TMC candidate’s plea difficult BJP win, says she’s a Bangladeshi nationwide

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    KOLKATA: Alo Rani Sarkar, who unsuccessfully contested as a BJP and Trinamool Congress candidate within the 2016 and 2021 Meeting elections respectively, has twin citizenship, the Calcutta Top Courtroom mentioned, whilst passing an order on her petition difficult the ballot end result.

    Her petition difficult the victory of BJP candidate in Bongaon (South) constituency used to be pushed aside via the court docket at the grounds that her identify additionally seems within the electorate’ record in neighbouring Bangladesh. The court docket requested the Election Fee of India to take essential motion.

    “The petitioner can’t declare to be a citizen of India when her identify seemed within the electoral roll of Bangladesh. The primary of twin citizenship isn’t acceptable in India. It’s admitted from the paperwork filed via the petitioner that at the date of submitting of the nomination paper via her, she used to be a Bangladeshi nationwide,” Justice Bibek Chaudhuri mentioned in his order.

    Alo misplaced to BJP’s Swapan Majumdar within the 2021 Meeting elections via a margin of 2004 votes. She additionally contested as a BJP candidate from Bijpur Meeting constituency in 2016 however didn’t win.

    Alo’s legal professional claimed in court docket that regardless that born in Bengal’s Hooghly district in 1969, she become a Bangladeshi citizen after her marriage to Dr Harendra Nath Sarkar in 1980 however she has left him on account of matrimonial problems and returned to India. The legal professional additionally mentioned she enrolled her identify within the electoral roll of Bangladesh in 2012 “via mistake” and it got here to her understand in 2020 when she asked the Election Fee secretariat at Dhaka to delete it.

    Regarding the top court docket order, BJP MLA and Chief of Opposition within the Meeting Suvendu Adhikari tweeted, “TMC is in charge of violating the Sub-section 5 of Segment 29A of The Illustration of Other folks’s Act. Looking to get a overseas nationwide elected, they didn’t undergo allegiance to the Charter of India via compromising the sovereignty, cohesion & integrity of India.”