NEW DELHI: Former Deputy Superintendent Akhtar Ali of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital announced on Wednesday that he has filed a case in the Calcutta High Court against former principal Sandip Ghosh, alleging that Ghosh “has a very big nexus’ which he wants to expose.Sandip Ghosh is accused of being involved in multiple scandals,…
NEW DELHI: Strongly disapproving of the sweeping observations made by the Calcutta high court, including advising adolescent girls to control their sexual urges instead of giving in to “two minutes of pleasure” while deciding a criminal appeal, the Supreme Court on Tuesday urged judges to decide cases based on law and facts and not to…
KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress’s Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy on Tuesday told Calcutta high court he had deleted the contentious posts on X that had prompted Kolkata Police to summon him for spreading misinformation, adding that he had spoken to the cops about this. The state told the HC that no coercive action would be…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has exercised its suo motu power a record 10 times this year taking cognisance of diverse issues, the audacious judicial order of a Calcutta high court judge being the first and the rape-murder of a doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College & Hospital being the latest. Most of them, however,…
KOLKATA: The outgoing principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital was ordered to go on leave from Tuesday after Calcutta high court expressed astonishment at the Bengal govt rehabilitating him as Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital principal “within four hours” of his resignation the previous day.“Let him be at home,” Chief Justice T…
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken over the investigation on Tuesday into the rape and murder of a woman doctor at a state-run medical college in Kolkata, as per officials. The agency promptly completed all necessary formalities within hours of the Calcutta High Court‘s order instructing the state police to transfer…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay Calcutta high court‘s May 22 judgment quashing inclusion of 77 communities, 75 of them Muslims, in West Bengal‘s OBC list and sought details of surveys determining their social and educational backwardness and under-representation in govt jobs requiring their inclusion in the OBC list.While agreeing to examine…
West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose and CM Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA: West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose, in an interview on Sunday, expressed his respect for chief minister Mamata Banerjee as an individual and maintained professional relations with her, but clarified that the “politician Mamata Banerjee” is “not my cup of tea.” Bose, who has…
KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee moved a Calcutta high court division bench Friday against a single-bench order restraining her from making “defamatory and incorrect statements” against governor C V Ananda Bose “in publications or social media platforms” till Aug 14, arguing that “justifiable criticism” was not libel and that the order completely curbed her fundamental…
NEW DELHI: The Calcutta high court restrained West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee from making any defamatory or incorrect statement against Governor CV Ananda Bose in connection with the sexual harassment allegations. Justice Krishna Rao passed the order in a defamation suit against the CM by the Governor.The Governor moved a plea before the high…
