In view of the lack of trust between the West Bengal government and the Election Commission, the Supreme Court has directed to appoint a judicial officer for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process. The court asked the Calcutta High Court to appoint judicial officers to decide on the claims and objections in the SIR. The…
The Supreme Court has refused to interfere in the NIA investigation into the violence that took place in Beldanga in Murshidabad district in West Bengal. The Supreme Court has sent the state government’s petition against the NIA investigation to the Calcutta High Court. The Supreme Court has said that after looking at all the facts…
A hearing was held in the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday (January 14, 2026) in the case of Enforcement Directorate (ED) raid on the house of political consultancy firm I-PAC and its co-founder Prateek Jain. Additional Solicitor General SV Raju appeared on behalf of ED. During the hearing, he got angry when his mike was…
The Enforcement Directorate filed a petition before the Supreme Court alleging interference in the I-PAC coal scam investigation by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her administration, Bar and Bench reported. The allegations levied through Article 32 writ came after the West Bengal government filed a caveat before the top court, The caveat, a…
The Calcutta High Court has directed the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) to file a fresh report with additional details related to 1,806 ‘tainted’ candidates. The tainted candidates are among the 25,753 school appointees whose jobs were canceled following a Supreme Court order in April last year. Taking on record the report filed by…
The case of chaos that broke out at Kolkata’s Salt Lake Stadium during the concert of Argentine football player Lionel Messi reached the High Court on Monday (December 15, 2025), when Acting Chief Justice Sujoy Pal allowed the filing of three separate PILs related to the incident. In these petitions, the court has been requested…
