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  • Adhir Ranjan requests party high command to stop Singhvi from representing Bengal government

    Adhir Ranjan requests party high command to stop Singhvi from representing Bengal government

    Kolkata (IANS) | State Congress President in West Bengal and Lok Sabha member Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary has written to senior party leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi from his party high command in New Delhi to represent the state election commission and the government in the Supreme Court in the matter of deployment of central armed forces for the panchayat polls. Appealed to stop representing. The state government has filed a petition in the apex court challenging the decision of a division bench of the Calcutta High Court to deploy central forces across the state. Both the Congress and the BJP have filed caveats on this in the Supreme Court, so that there is no one-sided hearing of the matter.

    State Congress sources said Chowdhary has brought the matter to the notice of the party’s national president Mallikarjun Kharge and has requested him to ensure that Singhvi and other party leaders, who are country’s top lawyers, represent the state government in the court or Do not represent the State Election Commission.

    Singhvi had recently faced the ire of the West Bengal unit of the Congress for favoring the Trinamool Congress in the Supreme Court. Chowdhary had also called for a complete boycott of Singhvi.

    Chowdhary said Singhvi had accepted similar briefs for the Trinamool Congress in the Saradha chit fund and Narada video tape scam cases. At that time also as State Congress President I had clearly said that we do not want his presence in any party program in West Bengal and now I am saying it again. We are calling for a complete boycott of Singhvi.

    Addressing a party rally last week, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had made it clear that there was no question of the Trinamool Congress supporting the Congress in West Bengal, as the Congress had defeated the CPI(M) in the state. have joined hands with.

    –IANS

  • Bengal govt challenges Calcutta HC order in minor rape-murder case

    Bengal govt challenges Calcutta HC order in minor rape-murder case

    Kolkata (IANS) | The West Bengal government on Friday challenged the twin orders of a single bench of the Calcutta High Court in the rape and murder of a minor girl at Kaliganj in North Dinajpur district. The two orders of a single bench of Justice Rajasekhar Mantha of the High Court were upheld by Chief Justice T.S. The challenge was filed before a division bench headed by It also includes Justice Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmoy Bhattacharya. The first order pertains to the constitution of a Special Investigation Team to probe the matter, while the second pertains to Justice Mantha seeking a report from the State Home Department on the alleged refusal of the police to cooperate with the SIT.

    Despite a petition being filed in the High Court seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the matter, Justice Mantha constituted the SIT, comprising the then Special Commissioner of Kolkata Police Damayanti Sen, retired IG Pankaj Dutta and retired CBI Joint Director Upen Biswas was involved.

    Directed Justice Mantha and in particular the State Police to extend full cooperation to the SIT.

    However, Sen has been transferred from his current posting to the less important post of Additional Director General (Training) of the state police.

    Justice Mantha’s bench had recently received complaints against the state police for not cooperating with the SIT.

    Expressing strong objection, Justice Mantha on Thursday sought a report from the Home Department within seven days.

    The rape and murder case took place in April.

    –IANS

  • Municipal Recruitment Scam: Calcutta High Court Refuses To Hear Bengal Government’s Plea

    Municipal Recruitment Scam: Calcutta High Court Refuses To Hear Bengal Government’s Plea

    Kolkata (IANS) | The Calcutta High Court on Friday declined to entertain a plea by the West Bengal government challenging the same court’s order for a CBI probe into the municipal recruitment case. A division bench of Justices Arijit Banerjee and Aruba Sinha Roy declined to hear the matter on the ground that it was not their subject.

    The matter has been sent back to a division bench of Chief Justice Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmoy Bhattacharya.

    The original order for the CBI probe was given by a single bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of the High Court. However, the state government approached the Supreme Court, which referred the matter back to the Calcutta High Court.

    The state government then approached a single-judge bench of Justice Amrita Sinha of the Calcutta High Court with a petition seeking quashing of the order for a CBI probe into the matter.

    However, Justice Sinha, on May 12, upheld the probe ordered by Justice Gangopadhyay’s bench.

    Finally, on May 16, the state government again approached the division bench of Justice Banerjee and Justice Sinha Roy, challenging Justice Sinha’s order.

    The Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids and searches at the residence of private real estate promoter Ayan Sil in connection with a recruitment ‘scam’ in government schools had unearthed irregularities in recruitment in state municipalities.

    –IANS

  • Ban on ‘The Kerala Story’: SC seeks response of TN, Bengal govts

    Ban on ‘The Kerala Story’: SC seeks response of TN, Bengal govts

    NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday sought replies of the West Bengal and Tamil Nadu governments on a plea of the producers of ‘The Kerala Story’ challenging the ban in the two states.

    A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha questioned the West Bengal government saying the film is being screened in the rest of the country without any problem and there appears to be no reason for the ban.”Movie is running in the rest of the country including in states having similar demographic composition and nothing has happened. This has nothing to do with the artistic value of the film. If people do not like the movie, they will not watch the movie,” the bench told senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, appearing for the West Bengal government.

    Singhvi said according to intelligence inputs, there may be a situation of law and order problem and peace among different communities may be breached. The bench also asked the Tamil Nadu government to specify measures taken to provide adequate security to theatres screening ‘The Kerala Story’.

    ”The state government cannot say that it will look the other way when theatres are attacked and chairs are being burnt,” the bench told advocate Amit Anand Tiwari, appearing for Tamil Nadu government, after he submitted that there is no ban on the film.

    Senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for producers of the movie, said there is de facto ban in Tamil Nadu as theatres screening the movie are being threatened and they have dropped the screenings. ,”For West Bengal, we are seeking quashing of the ban order,” he said.

    ”We are issuing notices to both the states and they may file their response by Wednesday. We will take up the matter on Thursday,” the bench said. ,’The Kerala Story’, starring Adah Sharma, was released in cinemas on May 5. Directed by Sudipto Sen, the film claims women from Kerala were forced to convert to Islam and recruited by the terror group Islamic State(IS).

  • NCPCR seeks report from Bengal government on child marriage

    NCPCR seeks report from Bengal government on child marriage

    Kolkata (IANS)| The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has sent a notice to the West Bengal government seeking an explanation on allegations of negligence by the state authorities with regard to complaints of child marriages in the state. Sources in the state government said the notice sought a report on action taken by authorities in 1,640 such cases whose details were missing.

    Sources said the NCPCR in its notice has informed that during the 17-month period from April 2021 to September 2022, 6,733 complaints of attempted child marriage were received in West Bengal, of which 4,001 were reported during the 12-month period between April 2,732 complaints were received from April 2022 to September 2022, and the remaining between April 2021 and March 2022.

    According to the NCPCR notice, out of a total of 6,733 complaints received during the 17-month period from April 2021 to September 2022, 5,093 cases were resolved, which means child marriages can be stopped.

    Again, of the 5,093 resolved cases, 2,732 were during the 12-month period between April 2021 and March 2022 and the remaining 2,154 were during the remaining five-month period from April 2022 to September 2022.

    According to the NCPCR, this means there are 1,640 missing case reports during the 17-month period from April 2021 to September 2022, of which 1,062 are during the 12-month period between April 2021 and March 2022 and the remaining 578 from April 2022. The rest are during a period of five months till September 2022.

    Besides seeking clarification from the state government on the status of such cases for which reports are missing, the NCPCR has also directed the state director general of police to initiate legal proceedings under the provisions of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 and the provisions of the Protection of Children . Sexual Offenses Act, 2012 in cases where the report is missing.

    The state government has been directed to respond within 10 days from the receipt of the notice.

    –IANS

  • Calcutta High Court seeks report from Bengal government on Ram Navami riots

    Calcutta High Court seeks report from Bengal government on Ram Navami riots

    Kolkata (IANS)| A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Monday sought a detailed report from the West Bengal government on the recent Ram Navami clashes in Howrah and Hooghly districts. Acting Chief Justice T.S. A bench of Justices Sivagnanam and Hiranmoy Bhattacharya directed the state government to submit the report along with the CCTV footage of the clashes by Wednesday.

    The action took place during the first hearing of a PIL filed by Shubhendu Adhikari, Leader of the Opposition in the state assembly. It sought a probe by the central agency into the March 30 clashes, which had turned Shibpur and Kajipara in Howrah into a battlefield.

    The bench also directed the state police to ensure that the general public is not affected due to the tension.

    Criticizing the role of the police in the matter, the bench asked the administration to be vigilant so that such incidents do not recur.

    Also on Monday, state Advocate General Soumendra Nath Mukherjee faced questions from the bench on the alleged failure on the part of the police in the case.

    Justice Sivagnanam asked why the police failed to give advance notice of such possible incidents, although similar incidents had happened in the past. How can the police have such a careless attitude? What action has been taken so far? Has section 144 been imposed in those areas?

    The advocate general of the state said that the police allowed the peaceful procession.

    After some time a section of the protesters resorted to violence, he informed the court. Section 144 has been implemented. Internet services have been suspended in some areas. So far 36 people have been arrested,

    The next hearing will be on Thursday.

    –IANS

  • DA issue: Agitating Bengal government employees will send a mass email to the President

    DA issue: Agitating Bengal government employees will send a mass email to the President

    Kolkata (IANS) | A day after President Draupadi Murmu arrived in Kolkata on Monday to attend the annual convocation ceremony of Visva Bharati University in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, state government employees took to the streets against non-payment of dearness allowance. Arriar has decided to greet them with a massive email outlining their demands in the matter. According to a spokesperson of the Joint Forum of State Government Employees, in a massive email, the forum will also highlight how the state government is resorting to ‘vindictive’ show-cause notices and transferring employees, who participated in the strike called by it on 10 March.

    In a mass email to the President, the Forum will also seek his intervention in resolving the ongoing impasse on the issue.

    A spokesperson of the United Forum said that a similar email would be sent to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on the same day in this matter.

    The United Forum has already announced that they will go on a mass holiday on March 30, apart from organizing a mega protest rally on the streets of Kolkata on the same day.

    On the other hand, the Manch will organize a two-day sit-in demonstration from April 10 at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. The ‘Digital Disobedience’ movement is already being demonstrated by the State Government employees against the State Government on Dearness Allowance.

    Earlier, they observed a one-day strike and a two-day pen-down strike over the issue.

    –IANS