Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court has put the compensation for the families of the hooch tragedy victims on hold for eight weeks. This came after a PIL was filed challenging the compensation announced by the state government for the victims. The PIL challenged the rationale behind the payment of the compensation. The West Bengal government had announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh for the victims' families. More than 170...
05:10 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ordered notices be issued to 16 Indian Administrative Service and Indian Police Service officers in West Bengal, asking why contempt proceedings should not be started against them for misuse or improper display of the national emblem. Acting on a petition by K. Dey, a division bench of Justice P.C. Ghosh and Justice Tarun Gupta directed the officers to reply to the notices by...
12:03 PM, Dec 08, 2011
New Delhi: In a setback for the Tatas, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday upheld as constitutional and valid the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011 by which the West Bengal government vested the land leased to Tata Motors Ltd (TML). Justice I P Mukerji, while upholding the validity of the Act, directed that compensation be paid to TML if it makes an application for it while noting that...
10:57 AM, Sep 28, 2011
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Monday decided not to proceed with the motion to remove Calcutta High Court judge Justice Soumitra Sen as he had already resigned. The decision not to go ahead with the removal motion of Justice Sen was taken after Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar held consultations with the representatives of government and political parties on the issue. The proceedings, listed for the afternoon, were dropped...
11:45 AM, Sep 05, 2011
New Delhi: Government on Sunday took the unusual step of notifying the resignation of Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta High Court, strengthening speculation that the proceedings against him in the Lok Sabha scheduled for Monday may be dropped, but there was no official confirmation of such a move. Earlier in the day, Sen's brief resignation letter, written and signed in his own hand " a prerequisite as per the...
07:37 PM, Sep 04, 2011
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar will take the final call on whether to carry out proceedings against Justice Soumitra Sen in Lok Sabha or not. The Speaker will decide on Monday morning after consulting all parties, according to sources. Sources have also said that Attorney General GE Vahanvati had advised that the proceedings should continue in Lok Sabha. Justice Sen hand-delivered his resignation letter to the President on...
01:58 PM, Sep 04, 2011
Justice Soumitra Sen had put in his papers to save himself from the ignominy of been the first judge to be removed. ...
10:11 PM, Sep 03, 2011
New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil on Saturday accepted the resignation letter of Justice Soumitra Sen and has forwarded it to the Law Ministry for action, said sources. The Lok Sabha will now decide if the motion of Justice Sen's removal will be taken up on Monday or not. The Government on Friday decided to go by Attorney General GE Vahanvati's suggestion that despite the resignation the motion of removal of...
06:45 PM, Sep 03, 2011
New Delhi: The government has been advised to go ahead with the removal proceedings against Calcutta High Court Judge Soumitra Sen. Sources have said that Justice Sen's resignation letter was not found in order. Justice Sen had resigned on Thursday ahead of a motion seeking his removal in the Lok Sabha. On August 18, the Rajya Sabha had by a huge margin approved the motion of his removal on the...
03:38 PM, Sep 02, 2011
Justice Soumitra Sen has resigned a few days ahead of the Lok Sabha taking up the motion to remove him. The Calcutta High Court Judge has sent his resignation letter to President Pratibha Patil. Justice Sen has written a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar apart from the resignation letter that he has sent to President Pratibha Patil. Following is the full text of a letter he has sent...
07:03 PM, Sep 01, 2011
New Delhi: Justice Soumitra Sen has resigned a few days ahead of the Lok Sabha taking up the motion to remove him. The Calcutta High Court Judge has sent his resignation letter to President Pratibha Patil. On August 18, the Rajya Sabha had by a huge margin approved the motion of his removal on the charges of misappropriation of funds when he was a lawyer. But he claimed that he...
06:11 PM, Sep 01, 2011
New Delhi: Arun Jailtley on Thursday led the BJP charge in the Rajya Sabha, against tainted judge Soumitra Sen and called it a 'fit case of misconduct' by a judge. The Calcutta High Court judge is accused of fund misappropriation when he was a lawyer. Voting on Justice Sen impeachment to take place at 6.40 pm in the Rajya Sabha. If the Rajya Sabha votes to impeach him, the motion...
04:39 PM, Aug 18, 2011
New Delhi: On a day when Anna Hazare's anti corruption protests swelled across different towns and cities in the country, the upper house of Parliament for the first time ever began impeachment proceedings against a sitting judge of the Calcutta High Court for corruption. Justice Soumitra Sen on Wednesday attended the Rajya Sabha to defend himself in an impeachment motion. In his almost two-hour defence in the Rajya Sabha which...
10:40 PM, Aug 17, 2011
New Delhi: CPI(M) MP Sitaram Yechury moved the impeachment motion against Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta High Court in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. Yechury moved the motion after Justice Sen was brought to the bar of the House and Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari gave the go ahead. "The matter pertaining to removal of the judge is very serious. The time alloted is 4 hours excluding 90 minutes...
03:13 PM, Aug 17, 2011
Kolkata: Taking exception to the reported remarks of a lawyer appearing for the West Bengal government, counsel for Tata Motors Limited refused to continue with their deposition in the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday. At the scheduled start of hearing on the third day this morning, Tata Motors Limited counsel Samaraditya Pal told the court of Justice Saumitra Pal that Kalyan Bandopadhyay, who appeared for the state government, had made...
02:07 PM, Jul 19, 2011
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