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Calcutta High Court scraps all OBC certificates issued after 2010

A division bench of Justice Tapabrata Chakrabirty and Rajasekhar Mantha pronounced the verdict, while delivering a judgement on a PIL challenging the process of granting OBC certificates. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Calcutta HC allows West Bengal police to file FIR against Suvendu Adhikari

Calcutta High Court allows West Bengal police to register FIR against Suvendu Adhikari for provocative remarks during Panchayat polls. Court says protection given to Adhikari not acceptable as per Article 361 of Constitution.

The Hindu

HC refuses to take suo motu action on remarks made by Abhishek

Calcutta HC refuses to take suo motu cognisance of motion seeking contempt proceedings against Abhishek Banerjee for remarks against judiciary. Bench suggests filing petition or mentioning matter before larger Bench.

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Trinamool team visits Nandigram to counter BJP’s fact-finding team

The development comes at a time when a BJP fact-finding team led by former Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is visiting West Bengal.

The Hindu

IIT-Kharagpur student death: Calcutta HC sets up new investigation team

Faizan Ahmed, a third-year Mechanical Engineering student at IIT-Kharagpur, was found dead at the institute’s hostel on October 14.

The Hindu

Relieved that Faizan did not die by suicide, says IIT student’s mother

The report said Faizan’s death had been “due to profuse bleeding causing haemorrhagic shock” with the ante-mortem injuries being “homicidal in nature”.

The Hindu

In Bengal, court orders dominate politics

The Calcutta High Court has become a ground for political muscle-flexing

The Hindu

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Calcutta HC sets up SIT to probe death of teenager at Kaliaganj

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) be formed to look into the unnatural death of a girl at Kaliaganj on April 21 in West Bengal’s Uttar Dinajpur district.

The Hindu

Calcutta High Court directs NIA probe into Darivit firing of 2018

The firing had claimed the lives of two youths, Tapas Barman and Rajesh Sarkar.

The Hindu

Trinamool grappling with repeated Calcutta HC orders of probe by central agencies in West Bengal

The developments centering cases relating to West Bengal school job scam has brought the focus on the repeated directions by the Calcutta High Court ordering investigation by central agencies in scams, irregularities and incidents of violence in the State

The Hindu

Calcutta HC directs second post-mortem of IIT-Kharagpur student’s body

The Calcutta High Court on April 25 directed to conduct a second post-mortem of the body of Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur student Faizan Ahmed, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances, at the institute in October 2022.

The Hindu

HC: Allow School Service Commission access to data room, submit State Level Selection Test breakup

Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday directed CBI, investigating irregularities in teacher appointments, to throw open the doors of West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) data room, now in the agency’s control, by June 30 to enable access to SSC.

The Times of India

After 11 years, Calcutta High Court directs CBI probe in Trinamool leader’s murder

Tapan Dutta was shot dead on May 6, 2011

The Hindu

Raid at Anish Khan’s house illegal, West Bengal govt. admits before Calcutta HC

Father of Anish Khan claims that the police personnel threw him off the second floor, leading to his death

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Birbhum violence | Calcutta HC directs CBI probe into TMC leader murder

The violence at Bogtui village on March 21 where nine people lost their lives was in retaliation to the murder, says the court

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Birbhum violence | Calcutta High Court takes on record CBI’s preliminary report

It reserves order in plea for probe into murder of deputy gram pradhan

The Hindu

TMC forms Jhalda civic board as Congress hits streets

The development comes at a time when people of the municipality located in the Purulia district are organising sustained protests over the murder of Kandu.

The Times of India

Calcutta HC orders CBI probe into murder of Congress councillor

KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court on Monday ordered a CBI investigation into the murder of Congress councillor Tapan Kandu of Jhalda Municipality in West Bengal's Purulia district. On a prayer by Purnima Kandu, the widow of the councillor, Justice Rajasekhar Mantha directed the central agency to submit a report on…

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Anis Khan case: Calcutta HC nod for state SIT probe, 2nd post-mortem

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court on Thursday allowed the state-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) to continue with the investigation into the unnatural death of student leader Anis Khan on the grounds that it would be “too premature” to form any opinion about SIT, directing a district judge to oversee the investigation…

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