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[82] [83] The Kolkata police termed the march illegal and erected barricades around the building. Lathi charges, water cannons and tear gas were used by law enforcement to disperse the crowd after which the protestors resorted to stone pelting. Several policemen and protestors were injured during the march.
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 ...
The Calcutta High Court is the oldest High Court in India. [1] It is located at Esplanade Row West, Kolkata, West Bengal. It has jurisdiction over the state of West Bengal and the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The High Court building's design is somewhat based on the Lakenhal in Ypres in Flanders, Belgium. [2]
The first victim in Calcutta died from injuries to the head in June 1989. Twelve more murders attributed to the Stoneman were reported within the following six months. All of the murdered were homeless pavement-dwellers who slept alone in dimly lit areas of the city. Most of the murders took place in central Calcutta, adjoining the Howrah ...
Dhananjoy was born in Kuludihi, West Bengal, India, and worked as a security guard in Kolkata. [8] He had married Purnima just eight months before he was arrested in the Hetal Parekh case by falsely claiming he was working in the Border Security Force when he was only a security guard. [9]
Contract law, minority, mortgage Mohori Bibee v Dharmodas Ghose , [1903] UKPC 12, is a major Indian contract law case decided by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council . The case held that a contract entered into by a minor is totally void.
The Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Calcutta, was founded in 1774 by the Regulating Act 1773.It replaced the Mayor's Court of Calcutta and was British India's highest court from 1774 until 1862, when the High Court of Calcutta was established by the Indian High Courts Act 1861.
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]