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The Calcutta High Court reserved orders on pleas challenging the Election Commission of India’s decision to deploy central staff for vote counting and shift a counting centre in West Bengal, amid arguments over transparency and jurisdiction
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The Calcutta High Court asked the Election Commission of India to decide on TMC’s complaint alleging a poll observer met a BJP candidate improperly, while the EC maintained the meeting was official and within norms
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The Calcutta High Court strongly criticised the Election Commission’s restrictions on bike movement before Bengal polls, calling them excessive and potentially abusive of power. The court questioned the justification and asked for evidence, while EC will file an affidavit explaining its decision
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The Calcutta High Court has set aside the appointment of assistant professors as presiding officers for West Bengal assembly polls, ruling that the Election Commission failed to justify the decision as per its guidelines on assigning senior officials to polling duties
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Former TMC MLA Humayun Kabir moved the Calcutta High Court seeking a probe into an alleged AI-generated video claiming a BJP deal, calling it a conspiracy ahead of polls, while parties denied links
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The Calcutta High Court upheld a life sentence for a man who had a consensual physical relationship with a 14-year-old minor, ruling it inexcusable. The court also directed compensation totaling Rs 3.8 lakh to the victim
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Suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir said a Rs 300 crore budget has been set aside to build a Babri mosque replica at Beldanga in Murshidabad. He claimed the Calcutta High Court has not found his announcement or foundation-laying move unconstitutional
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The Calcutta High Court has commuted the death sentence of an Andhra Pradesh couple convicted of killing a toddler to life imprisonment for 40 years without remission. The bench upheld their conviction but ruled the case does not qualify as “rarest of rare”
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The CBI has taken over the 2019 Sandeshkhali post-poll violence case involving the killing of three BJP workers. An FIR has been filed against former TMC leader Sahajahan Sheikh, with the Calcutta HC citing repeated police failure to act against him.
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A division bench presided by Justice Soumen Sen asked the state to produce the case diary of the investigation before July 10
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An FIR was registered against Panoli on May 15 and she was arrested on May 30 from Gurugram
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The BJP on Wednesday claimed that the report of a probe committee set up by the Calcutta High Court to look into the recent violence in West Bengal's Murshidabad district has exposed that it was carried out against Hindus at the behest of some Trinamool Congress leaders
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The lawyer representing the parents mentioned the matter before Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, stating that the Supreme Court had asked them to move the designated single bench of the HC with their plea
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On February 20, the judge of the special court directed the CBI to submit a fresh report on the matter by February 24 after the victim’s parents complained and accused the central agency of not updating the court on the progress of the investigation in the matter periodically.
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The special court had found Sanajy Roy guilty and sentenced him to life imprisonment
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Sanjay Roy was found guilty under Section 64 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita that governs rape, and Sections 66 and 103 (1) of the Act, which deals with punishments for death and murder
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Three of the doctors, who were observing ‘fast unto death' in Kolkata and Siliguri, have so far been hospitalised after their condition deteriorated
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Besides Kolkata, similar demonstrations were also planned in Barrackpore, Barasat, Budgebudge, Belgharia, Agarpara, Dumdum and Baguiati
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Sources say officials are closely examining the hidden links behind the contradictory statements made during the polygraph test
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Question the gap between the time of their filing the complaint and that of getting it registered as an FIR by the cops of local Tala Police Station