West Bengal Bar Council has written to Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana, seeking immediate removal of Acting Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court Rajesh Bindal.
The Supreme Court has annulled the Calcutta High Court’s order to not accept the affidavit of the state in the Narada bribery case. It has allowed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the West Bengal government, and state law minister Moloy Ghatak to file their applications before the high court.
Auto-rickshaw owners moved the Calcutta High Court challenging inaction on part of the Regional Transport Office, South 24 Parganas on the complaint lodged by several auto-rickshaw owners, who have been granted a permit to operate auto services between the Sonarpur-Tematha area via Radhanagar..
Debjani Ghosal, Counsel for the petitioner, submitted that in course of transportation of such cattle to Meghalaya from West Bengal, various police stations on the way stopped the Petitioner's truck and seized the cattle, and also arrested the personnel engaged in such transportation.
Mamata Banerjee's petition challenging Subhendu Adhikari's Nandigram victory has been assigned to a judge in the Calcutta High Court who was close to the BJP before he became a judge, say Trinamool Congress sources. West Bengal CM's lawyer has written to the Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal on this.
The bench while posting the matter for further hearing on June 22 said, “Matter will be taken up on Tuesday. In the meantime, we hope the HC will not hear the matter on Monday or Tuesday."