The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday found a large number of arms and ammunitions, including foreign-made pistol and revolvers, during search operations conducted at two premises in North 24 Parganas district’s Sandeshkhali, in connection with the attack on the Enforcement Directorate officials on January 5 by followers of now suspended Trinamool leader Shahjahan … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Calcutta High Court issued a decision on Monday in the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment scam case. In its decision, the state’s highest court invalidated the appointment of nearly 24,000 teachers, and non-teaching staff. The court specifically cancelled all appointments for teaching and non-teaching staff made through the 2016 state-level … Read more
KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ordered the Bengal government not to arrest sleuths of the National Investigation Agency in an attempt to rape case registered at the Bhupatinagar police station. NIA had on Tuesday sought a stay on proceedings in the case registered against its personnel. HC, however, said the police was free … Read more
Ahead of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) action in West Bengal on Saturday, the Union home ministry sanctioned 34 special public prosecutors (SPPs) across states. Eight of them were allocated to West Bengal and seven to Delhi, where the agency is headquartered. According to the order: “The central government hereby appoints advocates as special public … Read more
Former Calcutta High Court judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay joins the BJP in the presence of Sukanta Majumdar and Suvendu Adhikari in Kolkata on March 7, 2024. (PTI) Abhijit Gangopadhyay didn’t go for a cooling-off period after quitting as a judge of the Calcutta High Court and before joining the BJP. But is his case worse than … Read more
CBI registered three FIRs on Tuesday hours after the Calcutta High Court ordered a probe by the federal agency into the attack on Enforcement Directorate officials at Sandeshkhali in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district. While one of the FIRs mentions suspended – and arrested – Trinamul Congress leader Shahjahan Sheikh as the prime accused, … Read more
Reported By: Kamalika Sengupta Last Updated: March 06, 2024, 19:12 IST Kolkata [Calcutta], India Former Trinamool Congress leader Shahjahan Sheikh. (PTI photo) West Bengal police hand over TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh to CBI amid political tussle. High Court orders transfer of custody in ED officers attack case West Bengal police handed over TMC leader Shahjahan … Read more
Kolkata: A division bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Wednesday, admitted the Enforcement Directorate’s petition to fast-track the hearing in the case of immediate handover of Sheikh Shahjahan, the accused mastermind of the January 5 attack on the ED and CAPF sleuths in Sandeshkhali, to the CBI from CID-West Bengal. While moving the plea … Read more
The High Court court had said Shahjahan Sheikh’s custody will be handed over to CBI.(File photo: PTI) The government also said that the ruling cast “unsubstantiated aspersions” on the state’s investigating agency by directing transfer of probe to the CBI The West Bengal government told the Supreme Court that the transfer of investigation in the … Read more
Abhijit Gangopadhyay, who resigned as a judge of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday, said that he would join BJP on Thursday. He claimed that West Bengal’s ruling party Trinamool Congress was “crumbling” and was “on the verge of collapse”. Addressing a press conference here, Gangopadhyay said BJP’s slogan of “zero tolerance towards corruption” was … Read more
