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Alcohol smell in post-mortem report no ground to deny compensation to victim's family, says Calcutta High Court
December 15, 2025 10:05 pm
The Calcutta High Court said when a person drives the vehicle in drunken condition in violation of a condition under Section 185(A) of the Motor Vehicle Act , he may be prosecuted under law and when he meets with an accident that may be a ground of contributory negligence.
Calcutta High Court says parties must not be forced to stay in ‘dead marriage’ if reunion impossible, allows divorce
December 15, 2025 4:40 pm
The petitioner husband in the high court alleged that apart from her regular job, his estranged wife gave private tuition at her parental home and returned home late at night.
Calcutta HC refuses to intervene in stone-laying of Babri replica in Murshidabad
December 06, 2025 7:51 am
A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Parthasarathi Sen said the court would not intervene at this stage.
'Compassion can't trump Constitution': Calcutta High Court refuses panchayat worker's plea for regularisation
December 05, 2025 5:49 pm
Calcutta High Court ruling, compassion vs Constitution: Justice Ananya Bandyopadhyay said such appointments would only embolden “illegality and prejudice” affecting the rights of the countless eligible candidates or aspirants who never had the opportunity to compete.
PIL in Calcutta HC seeks stay on suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir's Babri Masjid plan
December 05, 2025 2:53 am
Advocate Sabyasachi Chatterjee, the petitioner's counsel, has filed the PIL seeking an urgent hearing, requesting the court to take immediate action against Kabir's provocative remarks that have allegedly disrupted communal harmony.
In big jolt to Bengal govt, Calcutta HC cancels 1,600 supernumerary posts in schools
December 04, 2025 3:45 pm
The Bengal government had created these additional vacancies in 2022, three years after the relevant recruitment panel expired in 2019
As Mamata govt welcomes order, BJP says it has given rise to fresh questions
December 04, 2025 5:58 am
High Court sets aside single judge bench order terminating jobs of 32,000 primary school teachers
Primary teachers celebrate, break down in tears outside Calcutta HC courtroom after order reinstates 32,000 jobs in Bengal
December 03, 2025 6:22 pm
They had been fearful that their fate would mirror that of almost 26,000 SSC candidates, whose jobs were terminated by the SC this year on grounds that the 2016 recruitment process of the WBSSC was ‘tainted’
Calcutta HC sets aside 2023 order that cancelled 32,000 primary teachers’ jobs
December 03, 2025 5:44 pm
‘The allegation of fraud and corruption pertaining to the entire recruitment process is not sustainable,’ the bench held
Will bring back Sunali Khatun, son from Bangladesh ‘on humanitarian grounds’, Centre tells SC
December 03, 2025 12:58 pm
In June, Sunali Khatoon and her family were picked up in Delhi, where they were working as daily wage workers, and deported to Bangladesh on the suspicion of being foreign nationals.
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