Maternity benefits | Differentiation not permissible between regular, contractual employees: Calcutta High Court

Maternity benefits | Differentiation not permissible between regular, contractual employees: Calcutta High Court

A view of the Calcutta High Court. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Observing that no differentiation is permissible between regular and contractual employees on the question of a woman’s right to childbirth and maternity leave, the Calcutta High Court has directed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to compensate an executive intern. The petitioner, … Read more

Sandeshkhali murder case 2019 | Calcutta High Court stays proceedings before trial court

Sandeshkhali murder case 2019 | Calcutta High Court stays proceedings before trial court

A view of the Calcutta High Court. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Calcutta High Court on January 17 stayed proceedings before a trial court in the murder of two persons and abduction of another at Sandeshkhali in 2019, in which Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Shajahan Sheikh was named the main accused by the … Read more

Calcutta High Court wonders why Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor is still in office

Calcutta High Court wonders why Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor is still in office

A view of the Calcutta High Court in Kolkata. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Calcutta High Court’s strong rebuke of Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty, with the judge saying that he should be removed for getting his own professor out of an international science project last year, has given fodder to his detractors who … Read more

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

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

The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday set up an independent investigation team to probe the unnatural death of IIT-Kharagpur student Faizan Ahmed. Justice Rajasekhar Mantha who is hearing the case set up the team after the second post-mortem of the third-year Mechanical Engineering student showed evidence of homicide. The court directed that charges under Section 302 of Indian … Read more

Calcutta HC orders transfer of probe into Birbhum explosions to NIA

Calcutta HC orders transfer of probe into Birbhum explosions to NIA

Calcutta High Court has ordered transfer of investigation into explosions in Birbhum district to the NIA from the state CID holding that the central agency has precedence in the investigation of scheduled offence. Vacating an earlier stay by a single bench of the HC in the NIA probe, a division bench comprising Justices Joymalya Bagchi … Read more

Ensure CCTV surveillance in every booth for KMC elections: Calcutta HC tells poll panel

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The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the West Bengal State Election Commission that CCTV surveillance be maintained in every booth for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) polls to be held on December 19. The court also said electronic surveillance should be ensured in strong rooms where EVMs will be stored following the elections. A … Read more

West Bengal post-poll violence: CBI registers nine cases

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The CBI has registered nine cases related to post-poll violence in West Bengal, sources said on Thursday. All the four special units of the investigating agency tasked to probe the cases of violence have moved their units from Kolkata to crime scenes across the state, they said. More cases are under the process of registration … Read more