April 16, 2023 3:45 am
The police have mentioned him as “absconding” in the chargesheet they submitted in the court in connection with the case that was registered in 2016.
April 25, 2016 4:00 am
CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Sunday said he will raise the issue of the morphed picture in the Parliament session beginning on Monday.
February 26, 2015 4:07 am
Mahapatra had to move court recently and obtain an anticipatory bail after the Kolkata Police booked him in another case and got an arrest warrant issued against him.
March 21, 2014 3:47 am
Mahapatra had filed a writ petition in HC alleging the state government had decided not to compensate according to the recommendation of the West Bengal State Human Rights Commission.
November 14, 2013 5:00 am
Sanjib Banerjee,too,had pointed out that the state human rights commission only had the right to recommend.
August 31, 2013 2:53 am
The rights panel had recommended that the state pay Mahapatra a compensation amount of Rs 50,000,which the state refused.
May 07, 2013 5:27 am
THE state government has rejected recommendations of West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC) for compensation to Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra,arrested last year for circulating an email with cartoons of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee,saying there has been no violation of human rights.
October 13, 2012 2:13 am
The police have accused Mahapatra of criminal intimidation and causing annoyance,insult,injury and hatred by sending the email.
October 13, 2012 2:03 am
Neighbours of Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra have alleged that the police have distorted or falsified their statements to implicate him in the Dushtu Lok Vanish cartoon email case that agitated West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and led to the professors arrest in April this year.
September 18, 2012 2:39 am
Scores of artistes,activists and intellectuals,who had supported Mamata Banerjee in her quest to defeat the Marxists a year ago,on Tuesday marched on the streets of Kolkata warning the Chief Minister of the consequences of slipping into the CPMs shoes.
April 08, 2016 12:41 pm
Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra was arrested for circulating a cartoon of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on the Internet.


