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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”

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.

A division bench presided by Justice Soumen Sen asked the state to produce the case diary of the investigation before July 10

An FIR was registered against Panoli on May 15 and she was arrested on May 30 from Gurugram

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

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

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.

The special court had found Sanajy Roy guilty and sentenced him to life imprisonment

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

Three of the doctors, who were observing ‘fast unto death' in Kolkata and Siliguri, have so far been hospitalised after their condition deteriorated

Besides Kolkata, similar demonstrations were also planned in Barrackpore, Barasat, Budgebudge, Belgharia, Agarpara, Dumdum and Baguiati

Sources say officials are closely examining the hidden links behind the contradictory statements made during the polygraph test

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

Questions counsel of State government on whether the administration considered the necessity for imposing Section 144 in the area

Hearing a clutch of petitions in the matter, a division bench of the high court comprising Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharya ordered a court-monitored probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), as demanded by the victim's family members

According to information on the Supreme Court's website, a bench led by CJI D.Y. Chandrachud, along with Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, is scheduled to hear the case on March 29.

On Wednesday, a Calcutta High Court division bench declined to intervene in a single bench directive instructing the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to gather the voice sample of Sujay Krishna Bhadra, a suspect in a purported primary school hiring fraud.

Terming the High Court observations as "highly objectionable and unwarranted", a Supreme Court bench said the observations are completely in violation of the rights of adolescents under Article 21 of the Constitution

The division bench also directed the ED to wind up the investigation process by December 31, besides directing the central agency to maintain total secrecy in the matter till the time the probe is completed.

In an oral observation during the hearing, the Calcutta High Court said that Abhishek Banerjee should provide documents sought by the ED from him by October 10