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The Court was named after Bankshall Street. The street was also named about this time from the Marine House, [1] known by the Dutch name of Bankshall, which was near the Master Attendant's Office. [2] This court was known as the Small Causes Court in British India. The buildings situated at 2 and 3, Bankshall Street near BBD Bag, Kolkata ...
[47] [48] [49] The court ordered the Central Industrial Security Force and Central Reserve Police Force to provide security at the hospital and asked the CBI to submit a status report. [50] In the hearing on 22 August, the court heavily criticised the law enforcement for the time delay between the discovery of the body and the registration of a ...
Four years after the incident, prime accused Kader Khan and Muhammad Ali were arrested on 30 September 2016 in Noida, brought back to Kolkata and produced before the court. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] In mid-June, 2020, Sumit Bajaj was released 20 months before his sentence ended, for 'good behaviour'.
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]
The court has a sanctioned judge strength of 63. Despite, the name of the city was officially changed from Calcutta to Kolkata in 2001, the old name is retained by the court as it is an institution. Bankshall Court – It is the present City Sessions Court of Kolkata. Two of its buildings are old heritage.
In November 2021, Calcutta High Court directed CBI to take charge of the investigation of the scam and find out the people who are accused in the scam. However, at that time, the Government of West Bengal went on to challenge the order before a division bench, which was rejected by the court. [5]
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, and is the oldest High Court in India. It was brought into existence as the High Court of Judicature at Fort William by the Letters Patent dated 14 May 1862, [3] issued under the High Courts Act, 1861 ...
There are 25 High courts in India. The number of total judges sanctioned in these high courts are 1122 of which 846 judges are permanent and remaining 276 sanctioned for additional judges. As of 1 January 2025, 371 of the seats, about 33% are vacant. Allahabad High Court, has the largest number (160) of judges while Sikkim High Court has the smallest number (3) of judges. The lists of high ...