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On 13 August 2024, the Calcutta High Court, unsatisfied with the police's handling of the investigation, assigned the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). [25] They also flagged the possibility of destruction of evidence if the state police continued with their investigation. [8]
The Calcutta High Court is one of the three High Courts in India established at the Presidency Towns by Letters patent granted by Queen Victoria, bearing date 26 June 1862, and is the oldest High Court in India. It was established as the High Court of Judicature at Fort William on 1 July 1862 under the High Courts Act, 1861, which was preceded ...
However, on 6 October 2023, a divisional bench of the Calcutta High Court, comprising Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Ajay Kumar Gupta acquitted Imanul Islam, Aminul Islam and Bhola Naskar of the charge of gangrape, while convicting them for criminal conspiracy and causing disappearance of evidence. The high court acquitted Amin Ali and commuted ...
Chanchal Bhattacharya versus State of West Bengal & Ors. (2015), a decision of the Calcutta High Court, asserts that individuals who have undergone gender-affirming surgery (referred to as sex reassignment surgery in the case) have a constitutional right to the recognition of their affirmed gender.
Thus cases built up during this interim period are judged when the circuit court is in session. According to a study conducted by Bangalore-based N.G.O, Daksh, on 21 high courts in collaboration with the Ministry of Law and Justice in March 2015, it was found that average pendency of a case in high courts in India is 3 years. [2]
In compliance with the direction of Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, dated 25.07.2023 in Diary no. 28088 of 2023 and diary no. 28468 of 2023, the details of 907 candidates in connection with 1st State level Selection Test for the posts of Assistant Teachers (except Hill Region), for classes XI –XII, 2016 has been published in the website of ...
Calcutta High Court has directed CBI to investigate the case. [14] On 13 April, the West Bengal state agencies handed over the documents of the Hanskhali rape-murder case to a 3-member CBI team. The CBI is scheduled to submit the report to the Calcutta High Court on May 2.
Suvra Ghosh (born 23 April 1968) is an Indian judge, currently sitting on the Calcutta High Court in West Bengal. [1] She has adjudicated in a number of significant cases, including those concerning the imposition of the death penalty in India, and notably imposed a fine on the Calcutta High Court itself after ruling that the Court had previously erred in ordering a magistrate to retire ...